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Kritikus Adinan
Written by Ratih Dwi Astuti, originally published in Personal Blog
Dec 06, 2018
Kritikus Adinan
Written by Ratih Dwi Astuti, originally published in Personal Blog
Dec 06, 2018
Kritikus Adinan is one of several books by Budi Darma that recently got republished. Previously released under the title Laki-Laki dalam Secarik Surat in 2008, last year it had a chance to see the light again with a new one, referring to one of the short stories on its table of contents. Here the senior writer holds his very view on morality—which doesn’t sound preachy, but is not unclear, either—and his surrealistic style as he does in Hotel Tua, with characters mostly unnamed and showing the reader the clear line between what’s right and what’s wrong within the somehow unclear narratives not easily understood.
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