By: Bea Joy Lorraine A.

Arcenio
II-9 BSE History
Philippine Normal University
Three novels of rizal

1st is the Noli Me Tangere

2nd is the El filibusterismo
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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.
Frankly, without irony or words with a double meaning, I share your
honest opinion of my work. 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. Blumentritt,
all the others in Paris and Barcelona, say the Fili is superior simply
because they are being kind to me. You are the first one to tell me the
truth which coincides with my manner of thinking. This flatters me since
it proves I can still judge myself objectively.
Bea Joy Lorraine A. Arcenio
 Written by Rizal while he was on the ship
Melbourne en route to Hong Kong from Marseilles
on October 1891, or in Hong Kong itself in early
1892.
I am retiring completely from politics as I have
already announced to you and I believe I am doing
right. I need peace and tranquillity in Manila or
in Hong Kong I write my work
 Patricio Marianos Translation of Noli
Me Tangere
Pacianos Traslation of Noli Me
Tangere
 My brother is translating the Noli
Me Tangere into Tagalog. He
already translated a lot
-Jose Rizal
 Patricio Marianos Translation of Noli Me
Tangere (X)
Pacianos Traslation of Noli Me Tangere (/)
Translation is missing and was only seen in
Pacianos house in Laguna by Franz Lopez
and Eugenia Villaruz before the war.
 while I rest from my professional work, I write
the third part of my book in TAGALOG. It deals
only with Tagalog customs, exclusively of the
usage, virtues and defects of the Tagalog. Im
sorry I cannot write it in Spanish for I have found
a very beautiful theme
-Jose Rizal
(January 3,1892 to Blumentritt)
 Dr. Jose P. Rizals unfinished 3rd novel.
After Mass
An anonymous librarian mislabelled the Spanish borrador
of the Noli me Tangere.
Cover Title: Borrador incompleto del Noli me Tangere
Measures 21x34 centimeters, comprising 20 folios, with
writing on one side only, making 20 pages.
Written in black ink with some erasures and is very brittle.
 Naghihimutok si Rizal sa pagkakasulat niya
ng El Filibusterismo.
I want to be witty, satirical, and candid; I want to cudgel
and laugh
-Letter dated 22 September 1891
I write the third part of my book in Tagalog. I want
to write a novelanartistic and literary novel. The book
gives me much difficulty -Letter dated 31 Enero 1892
Called as Tagalog
Nobility.
 Tagalog Nobility is set in Malate in 1635.
It deals with the early Filipinos and their customs.
This does not fit with Rizals description because of the absence of
the lone priest and the Guardia Civil
Tagalog Nobility is not humours.
Style and characters are not the only evidence we have against
Tagalog Nobility; more important is the language in which the third
novel was written Tagalog.
Tagalog Nobility does not fit the description simply in Rizals letter
simply because it is in Spanish.
Letter to Blumentritt, 20 April 1892:

The translation of the Noli continues but I have

already given up the idea of writing the 3rd part in
Tagalog, for it would not be appropriate to write a
work in two languages as they would be like the
sermon of the friars. So I am writing it now in Spanish.
1st: It is written in Tagalog.

2nd: It deals with the customs of the Filipinos.

3rd: Describes a certain Padre Agaton who lords it

over the small town of Pili.
1. In letters to Ferdinand Blumentritt, Rizal began his 3rd novel on the
ship en route from Marseilles to Hong Kong circa in 1891. Both
Makamisa and the Spanish borrador can be dated to his period.
2. Rizals 3rd novel, as he stated, was not in Spanish but in Tagalog.
3. Its storyline touches on the customs of the Tagalogs.
4. Satirical and humorous.
5. Rizal changed his mind and shifted from Tagalog to Spanish, thus
ending with two manuscripts with the same story and plot.