NOLI AND FILI COMPARED

NOLI
- THE NOLI IS A ROMANTIC NOVEL;
- IT IS A WORK OF THE HEART A BOOK OF FEELING
- IT HAS FRESHNESS, COLOR, HUMOR, LIGTHNESS, AND WIT.

FILI
- THE FILI IS A POLITICAL NOVEL;
- IT IS A WORK OF THE HEAD A BOOK OF THOUGHT
- AND IT CONTAINS BITTERNESS, HATRED, PAIN, VIOLENCE, AND SORROW.

THE ORIGINAL INTENTION OF RIZAL WAS TO MAKE THE FILI LONGER THAN NOLI.
AS PRINTED, IT IS SHORTER THAN THE NOLI.
FILI CONTAINS 38 CHAPTERS WHILE NOLI HAS 64 CHAPTER.
REASON WHY FILI IS SHORTER THAN THE NOLI BECAUSE RIZAL HAD TO CUT THE FILI
DRASTICALLY OWING TO LACK OF FUNDS.
RIZAL CONSIDERED HIMSELF THE NOLI AS SUPERIOR TO THE FILI AS A NOVEL, M.H DEL
PILAR AND RETANA (RIZAL FIRST SPANISH BIOGRAPHER) HAS THE SAME OPINION
WITH RIZAL.
WHILE OTHERS, BLUMENTRITT, GRACIANO LOPEZ JAENA, AND DR. RAFAEL PALMA
HAS AN OPINION THAT THE FILI IS SUPERIOR TO THE NOLI.
RIZALS UNFINISHED THIRD NOVEL

LOPEZ JAENA SUGGEST TO RIZAL THE WRITING OF ANOTHER NOVEL.

SEPTEMBER 22, 1891, FOUR DAYS AFTER THE FILI CAME OFF THE PRESS, RIZAL WROTE
TO BLUMENTRITT, RIZAL WAS THINKING OF WRITING HIS THIRD NOVEL.

OCTOBER 18, 1891, RIZAL BOARDED THE STEAMER MELBOURNE IN MARSEILLES

BOUND FOR HONGKONG.

DURING VOYAGE HE BEGAN THE WRITING THE THIRD NOVEL IN TAGALOG.

HE CONTINUE WRITING IT IN HONGKONG, BUT FOR SOME REASON OR ANOTHER HE

DID NOT FINISH IT.

IT IS SAID THAT RIZAL WAS FORTUNATE NOT TO HAVE FINISHED THIS NOVEL,
BECAUSE IT WOULD HAVE CAUSED GREATER SCANDAL AND MORE SPANISH
VENGEANCE ON HIM.

THE UNFINISHED THIRD NOVEL HAS NO TITLE;

- IT CONSIST OF 44 PAGES (33cm x 21cm) IN RIZALS HANDWRITING.
- THE STORY OF THIS UNFINISHED NOVEL BEGINS WITH THE SOLEMN BURIAL
OF PRINCE TAGULIMA, SON OF SULTAN ZAIDE OF TERNATE.
- THE HERO OF THE NOVEL WAS KAMANDAGAN, A DESCENDANT OF LAKAN-
DULA, LAST KING OF TONDO.
RIZALS OTHER UNFINISHED NOVELS

RIZAL HAS OTHER UNFINISHED NOVELS, ONE OF THEM IS ENTITLED MAKAMISA, A

NOVEL IN TAGALOG.
- MAKAMISA IS WRITTEN IN SARCASTIC STYLE AND IS INCOMPLETE FOR ONLY
TWO CHAPTERS ARE FINISHED.
- IT IS CONSIST OF 20 PAGES, 34.2cm x 22cm.

ANOTHER RIZALS UNFINISHED NOVEL WAS ENTITLE DAPITAN, WRITTEN IN IRONIC

SPANISH.
- HE WROTE IT DURING HIS EXILE IN DAPITAN TO DEPICT THE TOWN LIFE AND
CUSTOMS.
- IT IS CONSIST OF 8 PAGES, 23cm x 16cm.

A NOVEL IN SPANISH ABOUT THE LIFE IN PILI, A TOWN IN LAGUNA, IT IS ALSO

UNFINISHED.
-IT CONSIST OF 147 PAGES, 8 inches x 605 inches.
-THE CHARACTER OF THIS UNFINISHED NOVEL WAS:
- PADRE AGATON, A SPANISH FRIAR;
- CAPITAN PANCHONG AND CAPITANA BARANG;
- CECILIA, THEIR PRETTY DAUGHTER;
- ISAGANI, LOVER OF CECILIA;
- CAPITAN CRISPIN, A POLITICAL RIVAL OF PANCHONG;
- AND DR. LOPEZ, A FREE THINKER
 ANOTHER UNFINISHED NOVEL OF RIZAL, ALSO WITHOUT A TITLE, IS ABOUT
CRISTOBAL, A YOUTHFUL FILIPINO STUDENT WHO HAS RETURNED FROM EUROPE.
- IT IS CONSIST OF 34 PAGES, 8 inches x 6 inches.
- THE CHARACTER OF THIS UNFINISHED NOVEL WAS:
-CRISTOBAL, FILIPINO WHO STUDIED 12 YEARS IN EUROPE;
- AMELIA, SWEETHEART OF CRISTOBAL;
- CAPITAN RAMON, THE FATHER OF CRISTOBAL;
- A DOMINICAN FRIAR;
- A FRANCISCAN FRIAR;
- AND A SPANISH LIEUTENANT GUARDIA CIVIL.

THE BEGINNINGS OF ANOTHER NOVEL ARE CONTAINED INTO TWO NOTEBOOKS.

- THE FIRST NOTEBOOK CONTAINS 31 WRITTEN PAGED, 35.5cm x 22 cm.
- AND THE SECOND NOTEBOOK HAS 12 WRITTEN PAGES, 22cm x 17cm.
- THIS UNFINISHED NOVEL IS WRITTEN IN SPANISH, AND THE STYLE IRONIC.