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Paul de Man. Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke and Proust. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979. 305 pp. A Review.
PAUL de Man’s Allegories of Reading deals with deconstructive criticism, a tradition of literary criticism which is closely related with Jacques Derrida and Harold Bloom. Paul de Man discusses the unreliability of language, an idea prevalent amongst deconstructionism. He claims that, because of this unreliability, reading is an impossible activity. Paul de Man argues that […]
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Mama Poochie Cartoons by Stefani Hidajat
October 26, 2021
One day I woke up and I felt like I want to draw a cartoon. I drew the first one with only marker and paper, enjoyed it very much and couldn’t stop. I often look at them and hoping that it can bring smile to those who read it. October 8th, 2021, fresh from the […]
Hotel Atlanta, Kurt Gödel
December 16, 2017
We go to Vienna every year (also before our son was born) and always stay at the same hotel in the University area. However, I just found out yesterday that Kurt Gödel lived there in the hotel building when he was a student at University of Vienna. Gödel was a mathematician and first time I […]
My Personal Secret Sadness
March 7, 2017
My father is my personal secret sadness: his image emerged in my melancholic moments, long sleepless nights and days wasted by anxiety. Every time I am aware that he is forever gone; and how he threw his life away: I become overwhelmed with sadness and pity. My aunt told me about his dying (I was […]
There is this girl
February 13, 2016
There is this girl who thinks of the worst, If there is danger she knows first, Trembling believing her heart burst, Every foot-step feels like a curse. Life is bigger, But not for her, She goes under, To feel safer, Drown deeper, Her poor soul whimper. Don’t go there, she cries, Those are places, Where […]
For he was awar…
April 3, 2013
For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don’t look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. – Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
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Note For The Butterfly Who Flapped Its Wing
March 30, 2013
I might have misread you. I do have problem in reading you. Sometimes I think it is impossible to know what you actually mean, what we actually mean; for human’s minds and emotions are very complex, for people are different and have different intentions, for it was one of those casual encounters but I take […]
Samotnosc (Solitude) – Stefani Hid
March 28, 2013
Samotnosc (original title: Solitude) is a short story by Stefani Hid. This is a polish version translated by Natalia Laskowska (It is originally written in Bahasa Indonesia). __________ Doktorze, czuje sie osamotniona. Wcale nie mieszkam w strzezonej wiezy na bezludnej wyspie, ani w nieodkrytej przez nikogo dzungli. Nie jestem dróznikiem kolejowym w jakies odleglej wiosce. […]
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Madznun (Majenun) – Stefani Hid
March 28, 2013
Madznun (original title: Majenun) is a short story by Stefani Hid. This is a polish version translated by Natalia Laskowska (It is originally written in Bahasa Indonesia). ___________________ Madznun to pasozyt. Przykleja sie do innych ludzi, jak larwa do liscia. I bez przerwy sie zmienia, jak kameleon. Dopasowuje sie do otoczenia, kiedy tylko ma na […]
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May 8, 2022
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