This book calls for an investigation of the ›borderlands of narrativity‹ — the complex and culturally productive area where the symbolic form of narrative meets other symbolic logics, such as data(base), play, spectacle, or ritual. It opens up a conversation about the ›beyond‹ of narrative, about the myriad constellations in which narrativity interlaces with, rubs against, or morphs i…
Kisah Novel Sejarah Tusalama' ini menguak kisah inspiratif Syekh Yusuf Al Makassari yang Penuh Makna bagi Generasi Zaman Now. Menyibak tabir sejarah dan kearifan nilai-nilai budaya lokal, sisi spiritualitas dari sosok ulama pejuang, yang dinobatkan sebagai pahlawan nasional di dua negara yakni Indonesia dan dan Afrika Selatan. Novel ini berisi 25 kisah kumpulan mozaik kehidupan Syekh Yusuf Al …
Friedrich Hölderlin’s only novel, Hyperion (1797–99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to Greece after German exile, following his part in the abortive uprising against the occupying Turks (1770), and his failure as both a lover and a revolutionary, Hyperion assumes a hermitic existence, during which he writes his letters…
Mendl Mann’s autobiographical novel The Fall of Berlin tells the painful yet compelling story of life as a Jewish soldier in the Red Army. Menakhem Isaacovich is a Polish Jew who, after fleeing the Nazis, finds refuge in the USSR. Translated into English from the original Yiddish by Maurice Wolfthal, the narrative follows Menakhem as he fights on the front line in Stalin’s Red Army against …
"[W]e have a long way to travel before we get back to what Dickens meant… G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued the quest, so aptly described by G. K. Chesterton in 1906, to ‘find’ Charles Dickens and recapture the characteristically Dickensian. From research attempting to classify and categorise the nature of his popularity to a century …
This anthology aims to give a cross-section of javanese literature during the third quarter of the 20th century. A truly representative anthology faithfully reflecting every aspect of the literary life of such a long period is difficult to achieve, if only because of the limitations imposed by the quantity and nature of the material to which the compiler has access and the space available,…