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It is said that the idea of writing a novel depicting conditions in
his native land first came to Rizal from a perusal of Eugene Sue's The
Wandering Jew, while he was a student in Madrid, although the model
for the greater part of it is plainly the delectable sketches in Don
Quixote, for the author himself possessed in a remarkable degree that
Cervantic touch which raises the commonplace, even the mean, into
the highest regions of art. Not, however, until he had spent some
time in Paris continuing his medical studies, and later in Germany,
did anything definite result. But in 1887 Noli Me Tangere was printed
in Berlin, in an establishment where the author is said to have worked
part of his time as a compositor in order to defray his expenses while
he continued his studies. A limited edition was published through the
financial aid extended by a Filipino associate, and sent to Hongkong,
thence to be surreptitiously introduced into the Philippines.
Noli Me Tangere ("Touch Me Not") at the time the work was written had
a peculiar fitness as a title.


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