![]() ![]() On the other hand, he is practically a stranger to the Filipinos of our times, a century after his birth, and we can look at him with a certain freshness. ![]() ![]() This is a pity because one cannot take a really objective view of the national hero. It was then I discovered that the way he died is not so important as the way he lived, and, since his life was essentially an apostleship, not so important as what he thought and wrote.Īlmost all the biographies of Rizal, including this one, are written for Filipinos. When I was commissioned by a London publisher to translate his two novels and to provide an introduction, I had perforce to write a brief account of his life. Then I translated his school journal and his poems as a literary exercise. ![]() I read his two novels in Spanish when I was still quite young, only half understanding them, and half secretly because my pious mother feared they would make me "lose my faith". In school I learned only that he had died for our country, shot by the Spaniards. Like most Filipinos I was told about Rizal as a child, and to me, like to most, he remained only a name. ![]()
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