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“... A virtual lobotomy has taken place. The central figure in the revolutionary generation was José Rizal, poet, novelist, ophthalmologist, historian, doctor, polemical essayist, moralist and political dreamer. He was born in 1861 into a well-to-do family of mixed Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Tagalog descent: five years after Freud, four years after ...”

“... the latter El folk-lore filipino. The author of the novel (shivering in Bismarck’s capital) was José Rizal, aged 25; that of the folklore compendium Isabelo de los Reyes, two years Rizal’s junior. Rizal had nine years to live. He was executed in the public square in Manila in ...”

“... arc. As Filipino scholars have pointed out, nationalist history also follows this pattern. José Rizal, our national hero, wrote about pre-colonial Philippines, calling it ‘nuestro perdido Eden’ in a poem written just before his execution by the Spaniards. The oppressed Filipinos then threw off the colonial yoke and declared independence.In ...”

“... Its one melancholy ‘success’ was the execution in 1896 of the ilustrado-mestizo polymath, Jose Rizal, South-East Asia’s greatest novelist (and a merciless satirist – in Spanish – not only of Spanish misrule but of his own class’s greed and opportunism). By then, an insurrection was under way (remembered today as the Filipino Revolution), which ...”