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Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Indonesian novelist's autobiography written from prison. In a collection of essays and letters, smuggled during his 14-year sentence for human rights activity, he describes various stages of his life and how he lost his hearing from beatings by guards.
Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 1999-04-28
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Indonesian novelist's autobiography written from prison. In a collection of essays and letters, smuggled during his 14-year sentence for human rights activity, he describes various stages of his life and how he lost his hearing from beatings by guards.
Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-01-25
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0143034464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPramoedya Ananta Toer’s transcendent novels have become part of the world literary canon, but it is his short fiction that originally made him famous. The first full-size collection of his short stories to appear in English, All That Is Gone draws from the author’s own experiences in Indonesia to depict characters trying to make sense of a war-torn culture haunted by colonialism, among them an eight-year-old girl soon to be married off by her parents for money and an idealistic young soldier who witnesses the savage beating of a man accused of being a spy. Though violence and brutality pervade these tales, there is present throughout a profound sense of compassion—an extraordinary combination of despair and hope that gives All That Is Gone rare power and beauty.
Author: Carola Kaplan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-01-15
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1135874670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a collection of original essays by leading Conrad scholars that rereads Conrad in light of his representations of post-colonialism, of empire, imperialism, and of modernism, questions that are once again relevant today.
Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9799589819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTales from Djakarta is a collection of thirteen short stories written between 1948 and 1956 - a period of bitter transition from the revolutionary era to the beginnings of military rule in Indonesia. These stories not only give us a taste of Pramoedya's earlier writings, but also lead us on a tragic tour through mid-century Jakarta with her downtrodden residents as our guides.
Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 9799589835
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Centuries ago, there was, in the eastern part of the island of Java, a kingdom by the name of Daha..." So begins The King, the Witch and the Priest, a fable with contemporary allure that is based on the story of Calon Arang, a Javanese legend dating from the twelfth century. As tradition tells it, Calon Arang was a powerful witch from the village of Girah who had a beautiful daughter named Ratna Manggali who could find no husband. No man would have her for fear of her mother. Calon Arang became so angered by her daughter's plight that she spread pestilence throughout the kingdom. To deal with the problem, King Erlangga ordered his most respected priest, Empu Baradah, to get rid of Calon Arang. This proved to be no easy task as Calon Arang owned a book containing all the secrets of sorcery. This ancient tale, as retold by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, exhibits a remarkable relevance to contemporary life with timeless lessons such as the triumph of good over evil and the ever-possible eternal salvation of one's soul. Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925-2006) is Indonesia's most celebrated writer, with over thirty works of fiction translated into over thirty languages. A recipient of many major international awards, he was most recently awarded the Grand Prize in the 2000 Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize competition, Japan's highest literary honor. Willem Samuels is a long-time resident of Jakarta and has translated several of Pramoedya's works including The Fugitive, The Mute's Soliloquy, The Girl From the Coast and All That is Gone.
Author: Jacques Rancière
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0231151039
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Jacques Ranciere has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthetic "distributions of the sensible," which configure the limits of what can be seen and said. Widely recognized as a seminal work in Ranciere's corpus, the translation of which is long overdue, Mute Speech is an intellectual tour de force proposing a new framework for thinking about the history of art and literature. Ranciere argues that our current notion of "literature" is a relatively recent creation, having first appeared in the wake of the French Revolution and with the rise of Romanticism. In its rejection of the system of representational hierarchies that had constituted belles-letters, "literature" is founded upon a radical equivalence in which all things are possible expressions of the life of a people. With an analysis reaching back to Plato, Aristotle, the German Romantics, Vico, and Cervantes and concluding with brilliant readings of Flaubert, Mallarme, and Proust, Ranciere demonstrates the uncontrollable democratic impulse lying at the heart of literature's still-vital capacity for reinvention."--Publisher description.
Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780140296525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranslation originally published: New York: William Morrow, 1990.
Author: Sextus Propertius
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-06-03
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0520935845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he calls "Cynthia." Their connection was sometimes blissful, more often agonizing, but as the poet came to recognize, it went beyond pride or shame to become the defining event of his life. Whether or not it was Propertius' explicit intention, these elegies extend our ideas of desire, and of the human condition itself.
Author: Lois Sepahban
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2016-01-05
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0374302170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTen-year-old Manami did not realize how peaceful her family's life on Bainbridge Island was until the day it all changed. It's 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Manami and her family are Japanese American, which means that the government says they must leave their home by the sea and join other Japanese Americans at a prison camp in the desert. Manami is sad to go, but even worse is that they are going to have to give her and her grandfather's dog, Yujiin, to a neighbor to take care of. Manami decides to sneak Yujiin under her coat and gets as far as the mainland before she is caught and forced to abandon Yujiin. She and her grandfather are devastated, but Manami clings to the hope that somehow Yujiin will find his way to the camp and make her family whole again. It isn't until she finds a way to let go of her guilt that Manami can reclaim the piece of herself that she left behind and accept all that has happened to her family.
