27‘The Importing of the Novel To Brazil’, p. 53. 28Rizal’s solution, or lack thereof, is probably also related to his extraordinarily wide social spectrum (Noli Me Tangere, among other things, is the ...

He was reading it shortly after Noli Me Tangere had come out; Dekker himself had died the year before. In a December 6th letter to Blumentritt (who, of course, had never heard of the book), Rizal ...