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El filibusterismoPublished in Ghent (1891)Chapter 19

The El Filibusterismo

PRIVATION IN GHENT July 5,

1891Rizal left Brussels for

Ghent

Ghent A famous University in Belgium

Reasons for moving to Ghent:

Cost of printing was cheaper in

Ghent

To escape from enticing attraction of

Petite Suzanne

Two compatriots he met in

Ghent

Jose Alejandro

(from Pampanga)

Edilberto Evangelista

(from Manila)

Ghent University

Owing to his limited funds Rizal:

Lived in a cheap

boardinghouse

• With Jose Alejandro as room

mate

Have a

frugal

life

Prepared

their own

breakfast

THE PRINTING OF EL FILIBUSTERISMO

a publisher, F. Meyer-Van Loo Press, No.66 Viandren Street

-Willing to print at installment basis

As the printing was going on

-Rizal became desperate because the funds were running low

-He recived some money from Basa & P200 from Rodriguez Arias

On August 6, the printing has to be

suspended.

•He could no longer give the necessary funds

Ventura,Savior of the Fili

Valentin Ventura in Paris learned of rizal’s predicament and immidiately sent him the necessary funds.With his financial aid, the printing of the Fili was resumed

•El filibusterismo came off the press

•Rizal immediately sent 2 copies to Hong Kong for Basa & Sixto Lopez

September 18,1891

•The liberal Madrid newspaper

•Serialized the novel in its issues of October, 1891

El Nuevo Regimen

Fili Comes Off The Press

•A Barcelona newspaper•Published a tribute,

eulogizing the novel’s original style

La Publisidad

All copies of the book’s first edition were shipped to Hong

Kong

But almost all were confiscated and the

books were lost

So the few available copies were sold as

400 pesetas per copy

DEDICATED TO GOM-BUR-ZA