Books
by c2o library | June 28, 2009 | No Comments
Short story anthology | INSISTPress | Indonesian | 2005 | 152pp
A collection of short stories based on existing texts, thick with rhetorics and poetic allusions. Maryanto built on characters, stories and texts cross paths in this shared universe, playing with repetitions--seemingly endlessly fascinated with old elements, reassembled by chance or design, to create new variations.
Read longer review in Indonesian here.
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by c2o library | June 22, 2009 | 2 Comments
An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials | English | Sage | 304pp
This book elaborates on various theories and visual methodologies, emphasising the ubiquity of visual materials in today’s culture. (She gives a short, general summary of the “rise” of ocularcentrism in modernism and its evolution into simulacra in postmodern era). Rose systematically analyses a number of theoretical frameworks along with relevant methodologies to describe how, why ...
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by c2o library | February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment
Komunitas Penerbit Jogja | September 2007 | 341pp
Senang sekali saat menerima buku ini dari dua teman termaniesz1 dan pendukung tersetia C2O, Pundi (eks-dukun Antro UNAIR, Komunitas Genjer-genjer) dan Tinta (Anitha Selvia). Tambah puas lagi begitu saya menyelesaikannya. Begitu banyak hal yang membuat saya geleng-geleng kepala, salut, cengengesan, miris dan sebagainya membaca tingkah dan dinamika penerbit-penerbit kecil.
Buku ini dibagi menjadi tiga episode (yang kurang lebih) kronologis, disertai pembuka dan ...
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by c2o library | January 12, 2009 | No Comments
A first-person narration novella, By Night in Chile is a deathbed confession of Father Urrutia, a.k.a. Father Ibacache, a half-hearted Jesuit priest and literary critic. Set during the transition from Allende to Pinochet, and written in one single paragraph except for the last sentence, the novel paints the turbulent political landscape with particular emphasis on the state, the church, and the literary/artistic figures.
Admitted to the seminary at the ...
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by c2o library | December 10, 2008 | No Comments
На Дрини ћуприја / Na Drini ćuprija | Yugoslavia | 1945 | Serbo-Croatian trans. into English
This book describes the relations between Orthodox Christian Serbs and Bosniaks (Muslims) in the town of Višegrad in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina during the centuries of Ottoman and Austrian administration.
The story spans about four centuries and is in some sense a collection of short stories. What unites the book and becomes in a ...
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by c2o library | November 11, 2008 | No Comments
Austria | 1983 | available in English and Indonesian | Movie available
A somewhat failed musical prodigy, the strict and rigid Erika Kohut taught piano at the prestigious Vienna Conservatory during the day and trawls the porn districts by night. Living (and still sleeping in one bed) with her domineering mother, who’s “old enough to be her grandmother”, her life has been congenitally forced along her Mother’s ideal.
Mother knows ...
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by c2o library | November 11, 2008 | No Comments
One of the first – and greatest – memoirs of the Holocaust ever written.
First appearing in May 1946 at a time when there was, of course, no “Holocaust literature,” Nine Suitcases appeared in weekly installments in Haladás. Concentrating on his experiences in the ghetto of Nagyvárad and as a forced labourer in the Ukraine, Zsolt provides not only a rare insight into Hungarian fascism, but a shocking exposure ...
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by c2o library | October 11, 2008 | 2 Comments
Non-Fiction (Science) | 571.8 JUDS | Hardcover | English
Applying hilariously exaggerated anthropomorphic slants, in this book Olivia Judson creates her own Dr. Tatiana, the sex advice column aunt agony to all sorts of sexually frustrated, confused creatures. With this framework, she present an informative and entertaining tour of the interesting evolutionary biology of sex.
The columns are grouped in thirteen chapters, each focusing on certain themes (female’s promiscuousity, wooing ...
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by c2o library | September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment
Non-Fiction (Films & Performing Arts) | 791.430955 SADR | 2006 | 392pp | English
From the infamous introduction of cinema to Iran through the Iranian monarchy in the early twentieth century to the worldwide acclaimed post-revolutionary era, Sadr presents us with a highly readable history of Iranian cinema with its embedded and reflected social, political, cultural and economic contexts, lucidly written in a comprehensive book.
In the West, Iranian cinema ...
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by Tyas | September 18, 2008 | No Comments
Sorry, this entry is only available in Indonesian.
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by c2o library | September 12, 2008 | 1 Comment
[lang_en]Choke tells the story of Victor Mancini, who works in a colonial-era theme park with a motley group of losers and breezes to sexual addiction support groups for entertainments. A medical school drop-out, he cannot afford the care of his feeble mother, so he resorts to consistently going to various restaurants and purposely causing himself to choke mid-way through his meal, luring a “good Samaritan” into saving his ...
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by c2o library | August 22, 2008 | No Comments
This is a collection of more than 150 non-fiction pieces (critical essays, movie & book reviews, prologues, introductions) grouped chronologically from his earlier (disowned) writings to the year of his death in 1986. Some of these pieces have also appeared in Labyrinths. Most are short, with longer pieces dedicated to certain subjects well-associated with Borges (The Thousand and One Night, time, dreams, labyrinth…).
Readers will notice recurring themes and ...
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by c2o library | August 19, 2008 | No Comments
A collection of metaphysical short stories set in various times and places, luminously darkened with the themes of fate and death’s impenetrability. With strong political undercurrents and recondite personal insights, Kiš’s reworked facts, Gnostic, Biblical, Koran myths and legends, political situations, rural folktales, depicting the delicate multitude and vicissitude of human life, perhaps with less faux vérité style than A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, yet with the same ...
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by c2o library | March 28, 2008 | No Comments
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
With that hokum-slash-truism, the novel begins the story about Osman, a young student who became obsessed about a book, as well as those who have read it, looking for some sorts of answers, common threads, and comparisons to how the book affects their lives and gives the possibility of a new life (a sentiment shared by many ...
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