Makamisa
''Makamisa'' (English: After Mass) is an unfinished novel written by Filipino patriot and writer José Rizal. The original manuscript was found by historian Ambeth Ocampo in 1987 while going through a 245-page collection of papers. This draft is written in pure, vernacular Lagueño Tagalog and has no written direct signature or date of inscription. The novel has only one chapter. It runs for only ten pages and is hand-written in the old orthographic ancillary glyphs. Although written in a different language, its style, characterization and setting mirror those of Rizal's two previous works, '' Noli me tangere'' and '' El filibusterismo'' which he wrote in Spanish. The chapter ends with a short unfinished sentence: which in English is equivalent to: which therefore satisfies the theory of it being unfinished. The novel explores the mysterious ill-temperament of the town curate, ''Padre'' Agaton. Rizal later restarted work on ''Makamisa'', using Spanish. However, the novel rema ...
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