Initially, Rizal financed El Fili’s printing by pawning his properties.

(Ventura’s steal of the title, one may argue, is another classic elucidation of the expression, “That’s what money can do.”) However, the honor of being called ‘the savior of the Fili’ had gone to Valentin Ventura-Rizal’s friend who partially financed the novel’s publication. 111).Īlejandrino, who later became a general in the Philippine revolution, may have been the first person to read the novel aside from the author. Unluckily, these historical souvenirs were either lost or destroyed during the revolution (Ocampo, p. For his assistance, Rizal gave him the El Fili’s corrected proofs and the pen used in doing the corrections. Jose Alejandrino, Rizal’s roommate in Belgium related that he was the one who canvassed printing press for El Fili. Being able to focus on finishing the book, Rizal had finally completed it by Main Biarritz. Rizal then went on to write the novel in Paris, and then in Brussels where distractions were less and the cost of living was cheaper. He continued working on it, making some revisions, in London in 1888. The novel was thus written against the background of threats and oppressions he and his family suffered because of the Noli and the so-called Calamba agrarian trouble. Rizal started writing El Filibusterismo in October 1887 in Calamba during his first homecoming. Its commonly known English alternative title is ‘The Reign of Greed’. Commonly nicknamed ‘El Fili’ or simply ‘Fili’, the novel was written also in Spanish. ‘ El Filibusterismo’ is Jose Rizal’s second novel written as the sequel of his ‘Noli Me Tangere’.

Jose rizal name in el filibusterismo