http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/ Glad to see you here, everybody. Feel free to feel at home. Feel free to copy anything here. Everything is present for your presence . . . <br>Thanks Sat, 5 Jul 2008 08:26:59 -0000 Mon, 2 Jun 2008 03:47:04 -0000 http://images.wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/logo http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com 100 100 One good sore, sehabis mandi, Xeno hang out sama http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/photos/album/17/The_New_apa_Young_ya_..._Kid_on_the_Block Mon, 2 Jun 2008 03:47:04 -0000 ... nah, akhirnya saya bisa menyajikan de kantor saya yang sekarang ... de kantor yang ... oh.... http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/photos/album/16/De_Kantor Tue, 27 May 2008 02:21:48 -0000 Ya, dua hari berturut-turut saya nemu meja bundar... dan ya... karena menganggapnya sebagai isyarat baik, maka saya poto deh http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/photos/album/15/Why_the_Round_Tables Fri, 23 May 2008 15:17:19 -0000 Inilah... satu hari dalam kehidupan gw, seorang racer belia yang melaju lebih cepat dari bayangannya http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/photos/album/14/One_Day_in_the_Life_of_a_Racer Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:39:43 -0000 When I heard the name Forum Lingkar Pena (henceforth, FLP), there surely will flash in my mind the image of nice women in veils speaking politely and marrying with nice pious men they have only heard about previously (not to say that they have never met nor been boy/girlfriends since the term boy/girlfriend itself is virtually inexistent to them). Forum Lingkar Pena is a banner under which one can find Moslem writers writing to syiar (spread out) Islamic teachings of love, peace, good conducts. It’s me to blame for not knowing deeper about their works, not reading any full books any of them has written, accusing them of practicing black-and-white literature (meaning, their characters are not round with bad guys being still being bad guys and the good ones still good ones by the end of the story), accusing them of writing tediously predictable stories (with a long-haired band singer or guitarist turning into a pious young man after knowing—and, of course, falling in love with—a nice pio... http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/reviews/item/32 Tue, 1 Jan 2008 12:43:39 -0000 DI TENGAH-TENGAH sebagian besar prosa Indonesia yang memilih latar Indonesia sendiri, baik masa lalu atau kini, novel Turquoise menjadi sesuatu yang unik: dia berlatarkan kehidupan di negeri bernuansa Arab-Afrika. Jika sebelumnya kita hanya mengenal kisah kepahlawanan dalam bentuk cerita-cerita silat yang sulit ditemui pada prosa Indonesia hari ini, maka Turquoise adalah sebuah penyegaran dan alternatif baru bagi kita: berkisah kepahlawanan dan cinta, berlatarkan kehidupan di masa lalu, di sebuah negeri yang deskripsinya tak jauh-jauh dari Arab atau Turki, pedang dan kuda muncul di berbagai bagian buku, adegan tarung pedang digelar di beberapa bagian. Dua hal ini, setting Arab-Afrika dan persilatan, mungkin akan mengingatkan kita kepada Negeri Senja Seno Gumira Ajidarma. Namun, terlepas dari dua hal itu, kedua novel ini jauh berbeda antara satu dengan yang lain. Berikut akan digambarkan sejumlah kekhasan Turquoise yang mungkin juga akan bisa menunjukkan perbedaan novel ini dengan Neger... http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/reviews/item/31 Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:12:40 -0000 Saya malas jika harus mengawali mimpi tentang Kuntowijoyo dengan kalimat, "Kuntowijoyo memiliki ingatan seorang sejarawan paling top dari kampus top, menguasai gaya bernarasi da'i setengah tua nan jenaka di perumnas tempat kita tinggal, dan sanggup berpetuah seperti paman yang banyak pengalaman dan luas pergaulannya." Tidak. Saya yakin Anda-anda sekalian sudah pada bosan dengan aspek Kuntowijoyo yang itu. Sudah banyak yang mengatakannya, mungkin. Kali ini saya ingin mengorek-korek tentang KUNTOWIJOYO YANG DENGAN JUJUR MENGAKUI BAHWA DIA MENULIS CERPEN KORAN. Tidak banyak sepertinya cerpenis yang membuat pengakuan dan Sastra Koran tanpa harus mengkritik kualitasnya atau membalas kritikan yang ditujukan kepada sastra koran. Dari yang tidak banyak itu, ada Kuntowijoyo. Pada pengantar buku Hampir Sebuah Subversi, Kuntowijoyo menyebutkan bahwa dia benar-benar menulis sebagian besar cerpen yang ada di buku itu untuk tujuan diterbitkan di koran. Dan dia menyadari bahwa ruangan yang terbata... http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/reviews/item/30 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:59:37 -0000 Seorang teman mengirim SMS yang berbunyi, “Jatim bth kritikus sastra,qta sdh tdk punya yg baru pasca arief,ayo mana tmn2 yang bisa nulis?masak yg nulis cerpen banyak tp gak ada yg nulis esai?”<br><br>Memang benar, tidak ada kritikus lagi yang lahir di Jawa Timur setelah Arief B. Prasetyo hengkang ke Bali. Apalagi sejak dia menjadi anggota dewan redaksi Jurnal Prosa yang berbasis di Jakarta. Oh, seakan-akan, Arief B. Prasetyo sudah diakuisisi oleh Sastra Indonesia. Dia kini, dia sudah jadi milik semua orang Indonesia, bukan hanya orang Jawa Timur. Jauh sebelum Arief B. Prasetyo, Pak Budi Darma yang juga sering menulis esai sastra juga diaku menjadi milik Sastra Indonesia, meskipun beliau tidak pernah pindah kemana-mana. <br><br>Tapi, apa benar kita sebegitu butuhnya akan kehadiran seorang kritikus sastra? Butuh, tapi tidak mendesak. Ada beberapa kebutuhan lainnya jauh lebih mendesak daripada kebutuhan akan kritikus sastra.<br><br>Kondisi sekarang?<br><br>Saat ini, lembaran-lembaran sastra di media kita dipenuhi penul... http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/journal/item/30/Tak_Ada_Deadline_Mencari_Kritikus_Sastra Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:40:21 -0000 Kita mengenal Wali Songo dengan segala keajaibannya. Kita tahu bahwa Sunan Kalijogo bertahun menunggu di pinggir sungai untuk bisa menjadi murid Sunan Bonang. Kita tahu bahwa Syeh Siti Jenar menyamar menjadi cacing untuk mencuri ilmu dari Sunan Bonang. Namun, apakah semua kisah agama sedemikian fantastisnya. Maka, jangan salahkan sama sekali jika Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf menyinggung perihal walisongo sebagai “kisah legendaris sembilan ulama Sufi” dari tanah Jawa. Hingga saat ini, kita mengenal para wali tersebut dari mulut ke mulut. Jika ada yang kita ingat dari mereka, hal itu adalah tembang Lir-ilir karya Sunan Kalijogo dan kesenian Bonang tinggalan sunan Bonang. Ini tidak salah, sama sekali! Sebab, untuk masyarakat Jawa yang benar-benar hidup dalam tradisi lisan (ketika itu bacaan cuma konsumsi keraton), mereka memerlukan hal-hal yang bersifat lisan. Justru pilihan mereka untuk berdakwah menggunakan fitur budaya lisan itu menunjukkan kemampuan mereka memahami jaman. Berbeda hal... http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/reviews/item/29 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:35:44 -0000 Label “Made in China” di berbagai produk yang kita beli telah menjadi penegas bahwa Cina adalah penguasa ekonomi dunia. Berbagai produk Cina mulai dari kendaraan bermotor hingga produk makanan ringan yang baru-baru ini ditarik dari peredaran karena dicurigai ‘kelebihan’ bahan pengawet pun gampang ditemui dimana-mana. James Kynge, jurnalis Financial Times, pernah membeberkan dalam bukunya Rahasia Sukses Ekonomi Cina bagaimana negara ini tumbuh dari Cina yang rawan kelaparan menjadi raksasa kuat dan lapar yang berpotensi menyantap habis jatah minyak AS dari Venezuela dan Iran. Tapi bersiap-siaplah untuk mengubah kekaguman Anda terhadap Cina setelah membaca China Undercover. Cina masih menyandang sebutan ‘tirai bambu’. Apa-apa yang ada di Cina tetap belum jelas dari luar. Saking rapatnya tirai bambu itu, masih saja ada sejumlah provinsi yang masih terlarang bagi pihak luar. Salah satunya adalah Anhui, sebuah provinsi termiskin di dataran luas Cina. Adalah sepasang suami-istri Chen Gui... http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/reviews/item/28 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:04:58 -0000 Find as many short stories or poems published in newspapers as possible, and you’ll see how most of them try to shock you with peculiarly unique themes (see Seno Gumira Ajidarma’s and Budi Darma’s), strangely shocking ways of presenting morals (see Mariana Aminudin’s and Hudan Hidayat’s), or mentally provoking with paradoxical truth (see Putu Wijaya’s). To us, their stories are what stories should look like. We take for granted that their qualities are what we believe as the esthetics of short stories. With this mindset, it’s gonna be a shock for us to read a book by Dr. DJoko Saryono. He is a Doctor in Indonesian literature in the State University of Malang. The book itself is Pergulatan Estetika dalam Sastra Indonesia (or, let's say, Twists and Turns in the Esthetics of Indonesian Literature). It could be that some of you, who live in Euro-austro-merican countries, have no ideas about how unique Indonesian people were in the past. I bet you don't. Look, Indonesian people were... http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/reviews/item/27 Wed, 7 Nov 2007 01:50:56 -0000 well, for ten solid days, xeno and his family enjoy his father's youth... alah pokoknya, inilah sepuluh hari paling membahagiakan saat xeno dilepas bebas dolen-dolen tak tentu arah, mulai kali, kebon, gerdu, anywhere http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/photos/album/12/The_Pilgrim_Called_Mudik Thu, 1 Nov 2007 08:11:11 -0000 Kata orang, salah satu tanda kiamat adalah ketika waktu berjalan kian cepat. Apakah sekarang kita merasakan waktu berjalan sangat cepat? Sepertinya begitu. Banyak dari kita beranggapan bahwa waktu 24 jam terasa kurang untuk menyelesaikan pekerjaan-pekerjaan kita. Kita sering merasakan tiba-tiba saja waktu sudah menunjukkan pukul 12 malam sementara pekerjaan belum selesai. Nah, dalam hal ini tidak salah kiranya jika ada film yang berjudul Kiamat Sudah Dekat. Mungkin betul. Waktu kita memang berjalan sangat cepat. Tapi bagaimana lagi, begitulah tuntutan dunia modern: karena dibayang-bayangi ketakutan tidak mendapat uang jika tidak ada pekerjaan, maka kita pun menyabet segala pekerjaan yang menghampiri kita. Hasilnya bisa ditebak: pekerjaan menumpuk, kita memaju diri untuk melaju kalau bisa melebihi kecepatan waktu, dan jika memang terlalu banyak kita pun mengeluh, “Andaikan sehari saya bisa lebih dari 24 jam.” Makanya, tidak heran jika ada orang yang bisa membeli segala tapi merasa t... http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/reviews/item/26 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:30:40 -0000 Saya tak habis pikir: Kenapa ada beberapa (atau bahkan banyak) kritik yang memandang miring Hubbu? Kenapa ada yang sampai bilang ‘Hubbu bikin malu’? Kenapa ada yang bilang ‘Hubbu biasa-biasa saja’? Maaf jika saya menebak: Apakah ada orang yang sirik dengan kemenangan Mashuri mendapatkan posisi senilai 15 juta di sayembara roman DKJ? Apakah karena isi novel ini hanya berkutat di seputaran Jawa Timur yang kurang eksotis secara konflik maupun fisik? Apakah karena tidak ada kutipan dari karya sastra luar negeri dan nihil catatan kaki dalam novel ini? Wah, kayaknya kita harus membiarkan dulu novel ini berbicara. Apa pembacaannya kurang dekat, kalah dekat dengan yang disarankan Nirwan Dewanto? Yang jelas saya tidak tahan untuk mengatakan apa yang telah diucapkan novel itu kepada saya. Maaf, jika pesan dari novel itu banyak yang tereduksi ketika melewati saya. Maaf juga jika ternyata saya yang terlalu sok tahu telah menafsirkan bahwa kata hati saya sendiri adalah apa yang dikatakan novel itu.... http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/reviews/item/25 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:13:43 -0000 He wanted to buy a new pair of pants <br>to attend parties,<br>to appear fine-looking<br>and convincing.<br><br>He had tried a hundred pairs<br>at various clothes shops,<br>yet never had he found any pairs<br>that fit him well.<br><br>Before shopkeepers,<br> swarming around him persuading,<br>he even took off his own pants<br>and cast them aside.<br><br>"You all don't know, eh,<br>that I've been seeking for pants<br>that accommodate and suit me best,<br>for hanging out at cemeteries." <br><br>Then he fled,<br>pantslessly,<br>and ventured<br>in search of his mother's grave<br>only to ask her:<br>"Momma, where have you kept the cute pants<br>I used to wear as a baby?"<br>(1996) http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/journal/item/29/literary_translation_Joko_Pinurbo_PANTS_1 Fri, 5 Oct 2007 08:10:37 -0000 The creative writing class had begun.<br><br>“You have 60 minutes to go,” Teacher Tati said. Kids in the 5th grade began writing with their heads almost touching their desks. Teacher Tati wrote three choices of title on the whiteboard. The first one is “Our Happy Family”, the second “A Holiday in Granny’s Home”, and the third “Mother".<br><br>Teacher Tati looked at the kids frowning. The sound of pens scratching against papers was softly heard. The kids were lost in their own worlds, she thought. Through her thick glasses, she was observing the 40 nice kids, their future waiting up ahead, nobody knowing where destiny’s hand would lead them.<br><br>Ten minutes passed by. But Sandra, 10 years old, had not written a single word on her paper. She looked out of the window. A tweak was fluttering in the howling wind. She couldn’t hardy resist the urge to escape, leaving the reality at play her head. She was cornered to picture the reality in her mind, because Teacher Tati asked her to think about “Our Happy Family"... http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/journal/item/28/Literary_Translation_The_Creative_Writing_Class_-_Seno_Gumira_Ajidarma Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:40:57 -0000 /1/<br><br>Chart Korbjitti is a highly honored writer in Thai literature. He proves it by brilliantly grabbing two SEA (South East Asia) Write Awards: in 1982 with his breathtaking novel The Judgement and in 1994 with a slow-moving novel Time. Yet, he is still away from being renowned among literary readers in South East Asian countries including Indonesia and Malaysia. As a matter of fact, he is among the most unique writers in the world and all of his works are worth re-reading.<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With ever-fresh and nonstandard narrative styles in all of his novels, Chart Korbjitti is among literary anchors in South East Asia that are skillful in narrative styles, such as Danarto and Iwan Simatupang from Indonesia. Each of his novel is composed with the application of unique narrative style that corresponds to the theme it takes. In his first SEA Write winning novel, The Judgement, he explored guilt and finally came up with a guilt-ridden narrative style. In this essay, however, ... http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/journal/item/27/Chart_Korbjitti_Study_How_Ages_define_Ways Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:12:30 -0000 /1/ Chart Korbjitti adalah penulis yang terpandang di sastra Thailand. Hal itu dibuktikannya dengan keberhasilannya menggondol SEA Write Award dua kali: pada tahun 1982 dengan novel The Judgement dan pada tahun 1994 dengan novel Time. Namun, sayangnya, di negara-negara sekitarnya pun dia masih sangat kurang dikenal. Padahal, dia memiliki karakter yang sangat unik dan menantang untuk dibaca. Dengan gaya naratif yang selalu segar dan tak standar dalam setiap novelnya, Chart Korbjitti adalah satu diantara sejumlah sastrawan yang bergaya tutur unik di Asia Tenggara. Masing-masing novelnya memiliki gaya tutur unik yang berhubungan dengan tema yang sedang dibawanya. Pada novel pertamanya yang memenangkan penghargaan di atas, The Judgement, dia mengeksplorasi tema rasa bersalah dan membuat sebuah gaya naratif yang diilhami dari rasa bersalah tersebut. Namun, pada kesempatan ini, saya hanya akan membahas novel Time dimana dia mencoba menggabungkan gaya penulisan novel dengan drama dan fil... http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/reviews/item/24 Tue, 4 Sep 2007 07:17:17 -0000 Xeno lagi action sama http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/photos/album/11/Xeno_in_Action Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:53:09 -0000 Pada satu pagi berkabut di desa Plemahan, kecamatan Bogo, kabupaten Kediri: perjalanan ke sebuah candi yang tinggal separuh. Dulunya, ada bagian bawah candi yang sebenarnya adalah relief berisikan tentang gambar2 hubungan seks yang sekarang tidak terlihat lagi. Konon, dahulu pernah ada seorang pemerkosa di Kediri berjuluk "Sumo Bawuk". Orang ini berlaku cabul setelah memaknai gambar-gambar itu dengan salah. Gambar yang mestinya adalah sesuatu yang harus dihindari itu dia anggap sebagai "pituduh", petunjuk. Akhirnya ditutuplah gambar itu untuk menghindari salah http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/photos/album/10/Candi_Tegowangi_Plemahan Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:37:08 -0000 Hasan Aspahani di Taman Ismail http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/music/item/3/Bibirku_Bersujud_di_Bibirmu Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:53:37 -0000 <img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/MASWAW%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt=""><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/MASWAW%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt=""><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/MASWAW%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-2.jpg" alt=""><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/MASWAW%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-3.jpg" alt=""><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/MASWAW%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-4.jpg" alt="">Well, A Portrait's Symbols Vs. Irish Catholics' World Vision in a Tiny Nutshell<br style="font-weight: bold;"><br style="font-weight: bold;">To sum up....<br style="font-weight: bold;">James Joyce owes much to his autobiography in composing his first novel entitled A Portrait, but pays an immense attention to scrupulous details so that, as also found in his other works, they do not only stand for their own regards, but also stand as symbols giving hints to refer to many events or objects in the history of Ireland. <br><br>The social structure has a certain influence on great humanity facts—meaning works created by special individuals having the sensitivity to feel the world vision, tendencies to take significant actions, of the community—produced in the site, whether it be temporal or spatial one, as stated by Lucien Goldmann. Goldmann founds a method to study the world vision as it is expressed in a literary work by examining the structure of a literary work to understand its reciprocal correlation to the social structure which is represented by the world vision. <br><br>Events in the histor... http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/journal/item/26/James_Joyce_Study_A_Portrait_of_Symbols_Smithed_by_the_Artist_part_4-Finish Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:08:55 -0000 In the Very Point<br><br>For the analysis in this chapter, Goldmann’s method of wholeness-part and explanation-understanding are applied. The analysis on especially wholeness-part will be presented in the first section of this chapter with the focus on the structure of symbolism in A Portrait. Next, the second section will deal with the explanation-understanding part of this study. <br><br>Looking closely at the symbols, in a Hope of Finding a Uniformed Structure….<br>Symbols to analyze in this study are mostly the ones called symbolic act by Kennedy. As stated in previous condition, James Joyce is expert in symbolism. However, the most interesting fact is how he treats an action in his novel as a symbol by making a scrupulous selection of details that will give hints to things, whether it be an incident or an object familiar with the readers, especially Irish readers. There is always a reference for every single action in the novel. &nbsp;<br><br>The symbols taken are mainly the most influential symbol from eac... http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/journal/item/25/James_Joyce_Study_A_Portrait_of_the_Symbols_Smithed_by_the_Artist_part_3 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:19:09 -0000 Beating a Bit Around the Bushy A Portrait and Genetic Structuralism <br><br style="font-weight: bold;">What’s there in between: James Joyce, Biography, and Symbolism….<br>If we know rather well about James Joyce’s life as a young man and read A Portrait, we will surely decide that this novel is his autobiography. It is because the great number of similarities between James Joyce as a young man and the protagonist of the novel, Stephen Dedalus, in many aspects. From the first page, readers can read how the young Stephen was told a story about “a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo” (. . .) by his father who later sings while his mother plays the piano. In many articles or writings about James Joyce’s family, it is often told about John Joyce, James Joyce’s father, who was one of the best male singers in Dublin and about Mary Joyce, James Joyce’s mother, who was good in playing piano. The Joyces are great people in music. Furthermo... http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/journal/item/24/James_Joyce_Study_A_Portrait_of_Symbols_Smithed_by_the_Artist_part_2 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:53:41 -0000 What About Talking about Joyce in Quite a Serious Way?<br><br>To begin with…<br>If we owe to the maxim saying that each day must be better than the previous day, we will surely be shocked to know the fact that Ulysses, a novel by an Irish James Joyce launched for the first time in 1922 by Shakespeare and Co., Publisher, was in 1998 elected to be “The Novel of the Century” by Modern Library (www.barnesandnoble.com). Some critics even consider this very novel the best individual work of art in history ( . . . ). There is a 76 year span from 1922 to 1998, but why couldn’t be born a better novelist within it? In the first reading only, a reader must be amazed by the exploitation of literary devices as a surface charm of this novel. Although it is true that this cannot be a mere standard to award in such a way, literary devices itself is a strong point for such a quality.<br><br>James Joyce has been well known to be the master of narrative styles and other literary devices. Readers can see that in the 18 cha... http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/journal/item/23/James_Joyce_Study_A_Portrait_of_Symbols_Smithed_by_the_Artist_part_1 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:37:03 -0000 you know, bro, past is not more than a mere past, something bringing forth the present. well, you know way more than i do. still, bro, the word reminder is hardheadedly stuck in the dixi for the sake of reminding itself... it reminds you that you all need reminders. at this very moment, i am that damn reminder, reminding you that past is not more than a mere past, something bringing forth the present... (still important though... though... though)... (hehehe... ini sih aku memang sok filosofis narsis ala carson clay dalam mr. bean holiday http://wawanekoyulianto.multiply.com/photos/album/8/Somewhen_in_a_Far_Somewhere Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:08:46 -0000