Dalam buku “Aku Eks Tapol” memang dikisahkan pengalaman masa kecil Hersri dan kegiatannya di Lekra (Lembaga Kebudayaan Rakyat). Organisasi ini didirikan 17-8-1950 untuk mengimbangi Sticusa yang dibentuk oleh pemerintah Indonesia-Belanda seusai KMB (Konferensi Meja Bundar). Lekra melakukan kegiatan turba (turun ke bawah), artinya penggiat kesenian itu turun ke desa untuk melakukan “sama ke…
The lives of three very different groups of people--gangsters on the streets of Manila, middle-class suburban families, and a group of street children and the psychologist studying them--intertwine in an intricately woven tale, set in the Philippines, that spans three generations.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the first great book of man's heart. Inscribed onto clay tablets around 2400 BC, it enthralled the ancient world with a story of love, heroism, friendship, grief and defiance of the Gods. That it continues to speak to us today, despite its fragmentary state, is testimony to the power and humanity of its themes: King Gilgamesh's lament for his dead friend Enkidu is still…
The Beach is a legend among young travellers in Asia: white as sands circling a lagoon hidden from the sea, coral gardens and freshwater falls surrounded by jungle. In this earthly paradise, it is rumoured, a select community lives in blissful innocence. For Richard, haunted by the glamour of Vietnam war movies, a trek into unknown Thai territory is irresistible. He was looking for adventure. N…
\"Aku menikah! Apa kau gila? Dengan siapa akua akan menikah?\" Arriman bergumam merana. Tetapi tentu saja dia tahu. Semua tahu. Hanya ada satu jenis perempuan yang bisa dinikahi penyihir, yaitu penyihir perempuan. Arriman si Angker, Penyihir Utara, perlu istri. Tetapi penyihir perempuan yang mana yang akan dipilih Arriman? Bermacam-macam penyihir perempuan---dari yang keriput berkumis, gemuk…
Indonesian poetry, like the country and also the language, is basically a product of this century. Only in the twentieth century have the people of this vast archipelago begun to achieve a unified cultural identity and national spirit; only since 1928 has the possibility, and by now the reality, of a common language been realized; and only since World War II have Indonesians achieved nationhood…