Jose Rizal's El Filibusterismo

Jose Rizal's El Filibusterismo EDICIÓN CRÍTICA / CRITICAL EDITION Isaac Donoso COMPLETE AND UNEXPURGATED ENGLISH TRANSLATION / TRADUCCIÓN INGLESA Charles E. Derbyshire FOREWORD / PRÓLOGO Floro C. Quibuyen ILLUSTRATED BY / ILUSTRADA POR Randy P. Valiente AFTERWORD / EPÍLOGO Virgilio S. Almario COVER BY / CUBIERTA POR Toti Cerda Jose Rizal’s El Filibusterismo serves as the thrilling denouement to his first social novel, Noli me tangere. In the first narrative, the author exposed the ills of a decaying Filipino society enfeebled by colonialism, while in this sequel Rizal tantalizingly emplots two divergent paths of the social disease’s inevitable and natural progression—either a slow, debilitating cancerous spread or the body’s sudden collapse into a violent paroxysm of anarchy and terrorism. This bilingual quincentennial edition is a faithful reproduction of the edición príncipe published in Ghent in 1891 and includes a comparative annotation of Rizal’s corrections, emendations a