Wed 20 May, 2009
The books I had ordered from Asia Bookroom a while ago were delivered today. The list of them is as follows:
- Keith Foulcher. Social Commitment in Literature and the Arts: The Indonesian “Institute of People’s Culture” 1950-1965. Clayton: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1986. [ISBN: 0-86746-598-0]
- Harry Aveling (ed., trans.). From Surabaya to Armageddon: Indonesian Short Stories. Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong: Heinemann Educational Books, 1976. [ISBN: n.a.]
- PKI dan Perwakilan: Majalah tentang perdjuangan dalam dewan2 perwakilan. Tahun ke-V No.2 dan 3 (1960, triwulan ke-2 dan ke-3), (Djakarta: Jajasan “Pembaruan”). [ISSN: n.a.]
I have read the first one, and have its xerox photocopy, but a book fetishist always wants to own an original copy. The second book is compilation of translated cerita pendek. The thrid one is a copy of PKI’s journal, which I don’t know whether I really need or not.
(Added on 21 May) The contents of the second book:
- Introduction
- Idrus, “Surabaya”
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer, “Inem”
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer, “The Bastard”
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer, “Letter to a Friend from the Country”
- Sitor Situmorang, “Snow in Paris”
- Sitor Situmorang, “Fontenay aux Roses”
- Sitor Situmorang, “Mother Goes to Heaven”
- Nugroho Notosusanto, “The Soldier”
- Nugroho Notosusanto, “The Transfer”
- A. A. Navis, “The Decline and Fall of our Local Mosque”
- Umar Kayam, “A Thousand Fireflies in Manhattan”
- Umar Kayam, “Bawuk”
- Umar Kayam, “Fall in Connecticut”
- Danarto, “Nostalgia”
- Danarto, “Armageddon”
- Notes on the Authors
I Wayan Artika says:
I’m following the Ph.D. program ini Udayana University in Bali. Now I’m writing for my disertation, about the literature by Lekra members. So, the book I have seen here have close relation with my research topic. Could I get a copy?
Best Regards
I Wayan Artika
pelopor says:
Hi, Artika. I’m sorry, but now I live in Japan. So it’s hard to give photocopies of them to you, in addition to the copyright problem….