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Bon Suwung | Gunawan Maryanto

by c2o library | June 28, 2009 | No Comments

Bon Suwung 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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Visual Methodologies | Gillian Rose, 2001

by c2o library | June 22, 2009 | 2 Comments

Visual Methodologies 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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Declare! Kamar Kerja Penerbit Jogja (1998-2007) | Adhe, 2007

by c2o library | February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment

Declare! Kamar Kerja Penerbit Jogja (1998-2007) 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 Night in Chile | Roberto Bolaño

by c2o library | January 12, 2009 | No Comments

By Night in Chile 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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The Bridge on the Drina | Ivo Andrić

by c2o library | December 10, 2008 | No Comments

The Bridge on the Drina 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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The Piano Teacher | Elfriede Jelinek

by c2o library | November 11, 2008 | No Comments

The Piano Teacher 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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Nine Suitcases | Béla Zsolt

by c2o library | November 11, 2008 | No Comments

Nine Suitcases 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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Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creations | Olivia Judson

by c2o library | October 11, 2008 | 2 Comments

Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creations 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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Iranian Cinema: A Political History | Hamid Reza Sadr

by c2o library | September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment

Iranian Cinema: A Political History 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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Against Nature (À Rebours) | Joris-Karl Huysmans

by Tyas | September 18, 2008 | No Comments

Against Nature (À Rebours) Sorry, this entry is only available in Indonesian.

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Choke | Chuck Palahniuk

by c2o library | September 12, 2008 | 1 Comment

Choke [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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The Total Library | Jorge Luis Borges

by c2o library | August 22, 2008 | No Comments

The Total Library 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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The Encyclopedia of the Dead | Danilo Kiš

by c2o library | August 19, 2008 | No Comments

The Encyclopedia of the Dead 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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The New Life | Orhan Pamuk

by c2o library | March 28, 2008 | No Comments

The New Life 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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Bon Suwung
Bon Suwung

Antologi Cerpen | INSISTPress | 2005 | 152pp

Satu antologi cerpen yang mengajak kita masuk dalam suatu dunia asing yang kental dengan bisikan retorika dan alusi puitik.

Jun 28, 2009 | Discuss »

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Laika
Laika

Gramedia | November 2008 | in Indonesian | General Audience | 208pp

The story of the abandoned pooch who became the first animal space traveller.

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Live-Evil
Live-Evil

One of Miles Davis’ most confusing and illuminating documents.

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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile | 2007 | 113 mins | Romanian w. English / Indonesian subs

Two girls try to arrange an illegal abortion during the final years of the Ceauşescu era.

Jun 28, 2009 | Discuss »

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Launching “Para Penggila Buku”
Launching “Para Penggila Buku”

[ June 29, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Membaca Surabaya Esok | Senin, 29 Juni 2009 | 19.00

Jun 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »

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