The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata by Gina Apostol

Author:Gina Apostol
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2020-11-27T17:00:15+00:00

340 The secretly distributed, newly published novel Noli Me Tangere arrived via Hong Kong from the presses of Berlin in 1887 where the exhausted and penniless Rizal privately published the book with borrowed money. I don’t know about you, but it is impossible to imagine the novelty of that book. To me, the Noli’s meaning has vanished completely, and not just from the abuses of overreading—the friar-hatred is sawdust, the romance with Maria Clara is more irrelevant than a pairless slipper. And so I envy Raymundo Mata. And anyone who read that book with original passion. But then again, I envy even my younger self—the one who had read Karamazov for the first time, that fervent nihilist, my suicidal self, oddly full of life. I admit that I think with a pang of those times when I was sixteen and wandering the book stalls for my next fantastic find, not rebellious nor secret as the Noli, but still the next book was a possible thrill. And in this way, distant as I am from him, I imagine Raymundo reading a book. (Estrella Espejo, ditto)

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