Published in

Berlin (1887)
The Bleak winter of 1886 was
memorable in the life of Rizal.

1. It was a painful episode for he was

hungry, sick and dependent in a
strange City.
2. It brought him great joy, after
enduring so much sufferings, (Because
his first novel Noli Me Tangere came
off the press in March, 1887)
How did Rizal
published the
novel?
Like the legendary Santa Claus,
Dr. Maximo Viola, his friend
from Bulacan arrived in Berlin
at the height of his
despondency loaned him the
needed funds to publish the
novel.
Idea of Writing a
novel on the
Philippines
INSPIRATION OF RIZAL

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s

Cabin
 Which portrays the brutalities of
American slave-owners and the
pathetic conditions of the unfortunate
Negro slaves.
 Of the Filipinos
In the Paterno Residence in Madrid
January 2, 1884
Rizal proposed the writing of a novel
about the Philippines by a group of
Filipinos.
Approved by: Paternos (Pedro, Maximo
and Antoia) Graciano Lopez Jaena, Evaristo
Aguirre, Eduardo de Lette, Julio Llorente,
Melecio Figueroa and Valentin Ventura
 What
happened
to Rizal
project
Proposal?
 Rizal’s project did not materialize
Those compatriots who were
expected to collaborate on the novel
did not write anything.
Almost everybody wanted to write
on women.
Rizal was disgusted.
Why Rizal was
disgusted?
Rizal was disgusted at such flippancy

He was more disgusted to see that

his companions instead of working
seriously on the novel, wasted their
gambling or fliting with spanish
señoritas.
What was
the
?
Write the novel
alone
The Writing of
the Noli Me
Tangere
 End of 1884, Rizal began writing the
novel in Madrid and finished about
one-half of it.
In Paris
He continued writing the novel
(Finishing one-half of the second half)
In Germany
He finished the last fourth of the
novel.
 In Wilhemsfeld (April-June 1886)
He wrote the last few
chapters of Noli
In Berlin (Winterdays of February
1886)
Rizal made the final
revisions on the manuscript of the
Noli.
What happened to
Rizal because of
sick and penniles?
 In a momentary fit
of desperation, he
almost hurled it into
the flames.
 “I did not believe that the
Noli Me Tangere would ever
be published when I was in
Berlin, broken-hearted, weaked,
and discouraged form hunger
and despiration. I was on the
point of throwing my work into
the fire as a thing accursed and

fit only to die.”

 VIOLA,
Savior of the Noli
 Rizal received a telegram from Dr.
Maximo Viola who was coming to
Berlin.
Dr. Maximo arrived before
Christmas day of 1887.
 At what
moment did
Dr. Maximo
saw the living
of Rizal?
 Rizal living in poverty and
deplorably sickly due to tack of
proper nourishment.

Dr. Maximo agreed to finance

the printing cost of Noli.
He also loaned Rizal some cash
money for living expenses.
 After
Rizal put the finishing touches on
his novel.
He deleted certain passages in his
manuscript, including a whole
chapter of “Elias and Salome”
February 21, 1887

The Noli was finally finished and

ready for printing.
They went to different printing shops
in Berlin to survey the cost of
printing.
Berliner Buchdruck-Action-
Gesselschacft
Printing shop they found which
charged the lowest rate, that is, 300
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