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Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not), the first of the two novels of Jose Rizal, was
published in 1887 in Berlin and smuggled into the Philippines via Hong Kong. The title refers to the words of the resurrected Jesus to Mary Magdelene in the Gospel of John, translated as "Touch me
not." The novel is a classic in Philippine literature because of its literary merits as well as the stark social and political realities which it convincingly essays. Set in a fictional town called San Diego which represents town life in late nineteenth century Philippines, Noli Me Tangere is a scathing, full-scale indictment of the Spanish colonial regime with its incompetent and corrupt political administrators and its abusive and conscienceless friars. It also criticizes the apathy and pretensions of many Filipinos who either passively accept the social order out of fear, or collaborate with the colonizers in abusing other Filipinos because of political and economic expediencies resulting from the colonial set-up. The novel awakened Filipino national consciousness. |
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