Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Paperback | Pages: 535 pages Rating: 4.39 | 14997 Users | 1621 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Bumi Manusia |
| ISBN: | 9799731232 (ISBN13: 9789799731234) |
| Edition Language: | Indonesian |
| Series: | Tetralogi Buru #1 |
| Characters: | Minke, Nyai Ontosoroh, Annelies |
| Setting: | Indonesia,1898 |
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Roman Tetralogi Buru mengambil latar belakang dan cikal bakal nation Indonesia di awal abad ke-20. Dengan membacanya waktu kita dibalikkan sedemikian rupa dan hidup di era membibitnya pergerakan nasional mula-mula, juga pertautan rasa, kegamangan jiwa, percintaan, dan pertarungan kekuatan anonim para srikandi yang mengawal penyemaian bangunan nasional yang kemudian kelak melahirkan Indonesia modern.Roman bagian pertama; Bumi Manusia, sebagai periode penyemaian dan kegelisahan dimana Minke sebagai aktor sekaligus kreator adalah manusia berdarah priyayi yang semampu mungkin keluar dari kepompong kejawaannya menuju manusia yang bebas dan merdeka, di sudut lain membelah jiwa ke-Eropa-an yang menjadi simbol dan kiblat dari ketinggian pengetahuan dan peradaban.
Pram menggambarkan sebuah adegan antara Minke dengan ayahnya yang sangat sentimentil: Aku mengangkat sembah sebagaimana biasa aku lihat dilakukan punggawa terhadap kakekku dan nenekku dan orangtuaku, waktu lebaran. Dan yang sekarang tak juga kuturunkan sebelum Bupati itu duduk enak di tempatnya. Dalam mengangkat sembah serasa hilang seluruh ilmu dan pengetahuan yang kupelajari tahun demi tahun belakangan ini. Hilang indahnya dunia sebagaimana dijanjikan oleh kemajuan ilmu .... Sembah pengagungan pada leluhur dan pembesar melalui perendahan dan penghinaan diri! Sampai sedatar tanah kalau mungkin! Uh, anak-cucuku tak kurelakan menjalani kehinaan ini.
"Kita kalah, Ma," bisikku.
"Kita telah melawan, Nak, Nyo, sebaik-baiknya, sehormat-hormatnya."
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| Title | : | Bumi Manusia (Tetralogi Buru #1) |
| Author | : | Pramoedya Ananta Toer |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 535 pages |
| Published | : | 2005 by Lentera Dipantara (first published August 1980) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels. Asian Literature. Indonesian Literature. Literature |
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Ratings: 4.39 From 14997 Users | 1621 ReviewsRate Regarding Books Bumi Manusia (Tetralogi Buru #1)
I only want to become a free human being, not given orders, not giving orders, Mother.Ha! Will there be a time like that, Gus? This is the first Ive heard of it.This novel sets in 19th century Java in the port of Surabaya during Dutch colonization in East-Indies. The characters in the story are mixture of Indonesian, Dutch, Arabs, Indians, and Chinese. All these people have with them aspects of the life of their own: their politics; their ideas on religion, philosophy, and morality; theirAn introduction to the novels of an internationally read Indonesian author, Pramoedya Ananta Toer. This one begins his Buru Quartet. The tetralogy's title refers to the prison in which he first told then wrote it. The setting begins around 1898 Surabaya, Java, a period of Dutch Indies colonization. The story begins with two privileged, optimistic, competent natives. Nyai (concubine) Ontosoroh has been educated by her Netherlands European consort Herman Mellema. She's competent in the Dutch
This book (English title: The Earth of Mankind) was recommended by an academic friend who learned Indonesian to read it in the author's native language - impressive! The subject is serious: a love affair between a pure-blood Javanese and a mixed-race Indo set against the backdrop of the emergence of Indonesian anti-colonial sentiment near the start of the 20th century. Unfortunately, I found the almost soap-opera-ish style hard to get accustomed to.
I only want to become a free human being, not given orders, not giving orders, Mother.Ha! Will there be a time like that, Gus? This is the first Ive heard of it.This novel sets in 19th century Java in the port of Surabaya during Dutch colonization in East-Indies. The characters in the story are mixture of Indonesian, Dutch, Arabs, Indians, and Chinese. All these people have with them aspects of the life of their own: their politics; their ideas on religion, philosophy, and morality; their
Three stars because it introduced me to a slice of Javanese-Indonesian history and Dutch colonialism there, but was a difficult read at times. Though Toer takes a pretty clear side against the Dutch and its imperialism, he gives a more complex telling and analysis of Javanese life. However, the language felt a bit old (which it is), and so got got a little repetitive and dry. Still, it's worth reading and admiring the clarity that Toer had at the time in looking at his country.
This is a complex novel about Dutch-Indo relations through the eyes of Minke, an intelligent Javanese boy who is sent up through Dutch schooling. He falls in love with the daughter of a nyai (a concubine, or slave, as she would put it) whose father is Dutch but whose mother is native. He calls the nyai "Mama" through most of the novel. He is forced to confront his own preconceived notions on intelligence, hierarchy, and personal value, largely because of Mama: "Stories about happy things are
All the colonial wars for the last twenty-five years have been fought in the interests of capital; fought to ensure markets that would guarantee more profits for European capital. Capital has become very powerful, all-powerful. Capital decides the fate of humanity. For the past years, a well-informed person with good book or internet will read about how big corporations basically controlled and and ruled nations. But this problem is not a necessarily a recent one, it's been going on since
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