Fateless..Yang namanya mati rasa memang tak pernah mengenal masa. Di masa perang, di masa damai, rasa tanpa rasa bisa hadir kapan saja tanpa mengenal waktu dan usia. Sejarah pun menjadi saksi mata. Di masa Perang Dunia II di Eropa, seorang remaja 15 tahun mengalaminya. George Kovas namanya. Ia ti...
Kaddish for an Unborn Child is truly worthy of its esteem, and Imre Kertesz is absolutely worthy of his Nobel Prize. I read the Wilkinson translation, unaware that there was another translation available. Now that I know it has been translated before, I am curious to see for myself how they dif...
I have never been a friend of biographies and memoires: Mostly because I believe that nothing intimate and personal can be very reliable, and also since my interest in someone’s work does not equal to an interest in their private persona. The same goes for “Dossier K.”. Quite many of the topics a...
For a short novella, with little in the way of obvious plot, The Union Jack is an immensely dense, challenging and convoluted text. The very personal narration, acquiescing to prompting from friends, sets out to tell the story of his one and only encounter with the Union Jack, which he saw, for a...