Jazz, Parfum, dan Insiden
1996
First Published
3.80
Average Rating
199
Number of Pages
In Jakarta's gleaming center a man and a woman watch each other from adjoining skyscrapers. The man, a journalist, has on his desk reports he doesn't dare publish of a massacre in East Timor. He contemplates the demands of truth and confronts the split in his world between a sophisticated urban life where the women waft by in signature perfumes, and the primitive oppression of Indonesia's army state in East Timor. Only jazz mediates. A music of raw emotion and powerful refinement, urbane yet born in the growl and moan of generations of slaves, jazz is not literal, but absolutely true. So too this novel, which defied Indonesia's regime of censorship and made available, in its pages, the heavily censored reality that journalists dared not report. In "Jazz, Perfume and the Incident," Seno Gumira Ajidarma combines the surreal and the actual in a way that forever changed Indonesian literature and political discourse.
Avg Rating
3.80
Number of Ratings
913
5 STARS
26%
4 STARS
35%
3 STARS
32%
2 STARS
6%
1 STARS
1%
goodreads
Author
Seno Gumira Ajidarma
Author · 48 books
Seno Gumira Ajidarma is a writer, photographer, and also a film critic. He writes short stories, novel, even comic book. He has won numerous national and regional awards as a short-story writer. Also a journalist, he serves as editor of the popular weekly illustrated magazine Jakarta-Jakarta. His piece in this issue is an excerpt from his novel "Jazz, Parfum dan Insiden", published by Yayasan Bentang Budaya in 1996. Mailing-list Seno Gumira fans: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/senogum...
