Apakah film Christopher Nolan ini merupakan adaptasi terbaik The Odyssey karya Homer? Belum tentu. Lagipula, hal itu memang mustahil.
- Professor of Creative Writing, University of Technology Sydney
Is Christopher Nolan’s adaptation a definitive film version of Homer’s Odyssey? No, it isn’t. In fact, it can’t be.
‘If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?’
The Empusium is a deft new take on the novel of ideas and convalescence.
God Forgets About the Poor is one part family saga, one part autofiction, one part Proustian journey through memory.
Margeurite Duras’s fictionalised account of a teenage affair with a much older Chinese man has been criticised as a kind of retro-Orientalist Lolita. But that does her iconic novel an injustice.
In her latest book, the Pulitzer Prize winning author suggests how the 21st century novel might renew itself.
The French novel uniquely blends social critique, personal struggle, entertainment and aesthetics – underpinned by an irony that winks at human weakness. Can it help us in these dark days of extremist violence?
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