Maman S. Mahayana
Literature is a spirit of culture. It is born from a very complicated process of the author anxiety upon the social condition and a tension between individual and his surrounding culture. Literature is also frequently located as the social portray. It reveals the particular society at the particular time. It is sometimes considered to voice the spirit of its period. And it is there that literature gives the specific understanding about social situation, belief system, ideology, and individual expectation which is basically represent the culture of the nation. Read more… »
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12
Sep
Written by Nurel Javissyarqi
Translated by Agus B. Harianto
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The name of Sutardji Calzoum Bachri is familiar in Indonesian literature for his Poetry Credo. Below I quote some part of it:
“Kata-kata harus bebas dari penjajahan pengertian, dari beban idea. Kata-kata harus bebas menentukan dirinya sendiri. Read more… »
Written by Nurel Javissyarqi
Translated by Agus B. Harianto
Acknowledgement (historical story)
As usual, I search the data from the mass media on Google for myself to be uploaded onto the website http://sastra-indonesia.com/ on which has been running since July 2008. I was ready to take serious risk to make the site from transportation fee of the literary event in Jakarta. After from the capital city, I felt as if I had become a poet, moreover I read a poem on same stage with the masters of literature, on the eve of the inaugural of Guru Besar (Professor) Abdul Hadi W.M., on the campus of Paramadina. Read more… »
Written by Nurel Javissyarqi
Translated by Agus B. Harianto
Perhaps, this author is the first story maker (motivator) in my head. Productive and qualified writer, and also philosophers by his choice on the right word among the gap of space-time of destiny had been determined, in each of his works. Read more… »
Prologue: By Maman S. Mahayana
Found Nurel Javissyarqi in among: Socrates, Plato, Aristoteles, Giodano Bruno, Galileo Galelei, Rene Descartes, Copernicus, Ferdinand De Sausures, Roland Barthes, Derrida, Ibnu Thufail, Ibnu Arabi, Ibnu Sina, Al-Hallaj, Al- Ghazali, Muhammad Iqbal, Hamzah Fansuri, Syekh Siti Jenar, Amir Hamzah, Chairil Anwar, Kahlil Gibran, Sutarji Calzoum Bachri, Afrizal Malna also the theory of Confucianism. Read more… »
