Bookworm of Gensan collects: Rizaliana

Having studied our national hero, Jose Rizal in high school and college, I remained interested in and curious about him.

 

In college, we had a 3-unit course on the national hero for which our textbook was written by Gregorio Zaide. 

I've read Rizal's Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) in English (titled The Social Cancer) and Filipino and in comics (graphic novel) form. I'm rediscovering it this time with the Penguin edition with Harold Augenbraum as translator.

This year, in honor of Rizal's 150th birthday, Penguin released El Filibusterismo (The Filibustering/Subversive), the sequel to Noli Me Tangere. Translation is also by Harold Augenbraum. I've read this in college as The Reign of Greed.

The first of 3 books on Rizal by historian and Rizal scholar, Ambeth Ocampo, Rizal without the Overcoat humanizes the hero.

Meaning and History collates the lectures made by Ambeth Ocampo on Rizal.

 

Ambeth Ocampo shared with his readers Makamisa, Rizal's third novel and how it was discovered. 

Lolo Jose: An Intimate and Illustrated Portrait of Jose Rizal by Asuncion Lopez Bantug is by far the most personal and lavish biography of the hero by one of his descendants that I have read.

Double Lives: Crafting Your Life of Work & Passion for Untold Success, by David A. Heenan features Rizal as a model for using his passion for success.