This flatters me since it proves I can still judge myself objectively. You are the first one to tell me the truth which coincides with my manner of thinking.
Blumentritt, all the others in Paris and Barcelona, say the Fili is superior simply because they are being kind to me. For me the Fili as a novel is inferior to the Noli, this is why I receive cum grano salis (with a grain of salt) the opinion of those who tell me that the Fili is superior to Noli. Frankly, without irony or words with a double meaning, I share your honest opinion of my work.
del Pilar I thank you for what you say about my work and I do appreciate your frank opinion on my Filibusterismo, that it is inferior to the Noli. Took 3 years of collation, research and scholarly sleuthing before the manuscript took shape and formed the body of this book. Written partly because of Marcelo del Pilars honest opinion of El Filibusterismo. Background Napagkakamalang Tagalog Nobility. One of the funniest manuscripts Rizal left us, next to this. What goes on in the gobernadorcillos residence. Mariano Ponce 3 expository parts: What goes on in church. Makamisa is not the title of the unfinished novel rather, it is the title of a chapter from a larger work. Background Written by Rizal while he was on the ship Melbourne en route to Hong Kong from Marseilles on October 1981, or in Hong Kong itself in early 1892. Written in black ink with some erasures and is very brittle. Cover Title: Borrador incompleto del Noli me Tangere Measures 21x34 centimeters, comprising 20 folios, with writing on one side only, making 20 pages. After Mass An anonymous librarian mislabelled the Spanish borrador of the Noli me Tangere. Chair of the Philippines' National Historical Institute in 2002 and of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts in 2005. Ocampo Multi-awarded Filipino historian, academic, journalist, and author best known for his writings about Philippines' national hero Jos Rizal and for "Looking Back", his bi-weekly editorial page column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.