Rizal’s Novels on Discount

Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo are now available on discount in North America if you buy them as a set. These editions published by the University of Hawaii Press are edited by Raul Locsin and translated by Soledad Lacson-Locsin. You can read the translator’s introduction to Fili in PDF here.

The London Review of Books has this to say about the books: “A huge advance over previous translations, handsomely laid out and with enough footnotes to be helpful without being pettifogging. . . . There are few prophets who are honoured in their own country, and José Rizal is among them. But the condition of this honour has for decades been his unavailability. Mrs. Lacson-Locsin has changed this by giving the great man back his sad and seditious laughter. And it is badly needed.”

~ by ecsamar on March 6, 2008.