
"Noli Me Tangere" by Jose P. Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines, is a novel that had the greatest influence on Philippine political thinking in the 19th and 20th centuries, and also had the widest influence on modern fiction, drama, opera, dance and cinema. Its popularity was due to the reflection of the time in which it was written, and is preserved thanks to the characters created by Rizal, whose action unfolds in situations that sound plausible to this day.