Pramoedya Ananta Toer Reihenfolge der Bücher

Indonesia's most celebrated writer speaks out against tyranny and injustice in a young and troubled nation.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s transcendent novels have become part of the world literary canon, but it is his short fiction that originally made him famous. The first full-size collection of his short stories to appear in English, All That Is Gone draws from the author’s own experiences in Indonesia to depict characters trying to make sense of a war-torn culture haunted by colonialism, among them an eight-year-old girl soon to be married off by her parents for money and an idealistic young soldier who witnesses the savage beating of a man accused of being a spy. Though violence and brutality pervade these tales, there is present throughout a profound sense of compassion—an extraordinary combination of despair and hope that gives All That Is Gone rare power and beauty.

"Centuries ago, there was, in the eastern part of the island of Java, a kingdom by the name of Daha..." So begins The King, the Witch and the Priest, a fable with contemporary allure that is based on the story of Calon Arang, a Javanese legend dating from the twelfth century. As tradition tells it, Calon Arang was a powerful witch from the village of Girah who had a beautiful daughter named Ratna Manggali who could find no husband. No man would have her for fear of her mother. Calon Arang became so angered by her daughter's plight that she spread pestilence throughout the kingdom. To deal with the problem, King Erlangga ordered his most respected priest, Empu Baradah, to get rid of Calon Arang. This proved to be no easy task as Calon Arang owned a book containing all the secrets of sorcery.

Im Jahr 1965 war Pramoedya Ananta Toer einer der Helden der indonesischen Revolution und als einer der besten Autoren, die das Land je hervorgebracht hat, weithin anerkannt. Aber es war auch das Jahr, in dem das Land in einer Periode ausgedehnter sozialer Unruhen versank. Pramoedya und Zehntausende anderer wurden inhaftiert und in der Folge auf die abgelegene Molukkeninsel Buru verbannt. Während Pramoedya – ohne daß gegen ihn je Anklage erhoben wurde – elf Jahre auf Buru verbringen mußte, wurden er und seine Mitgefangenen dazu gezwungen, den Urwald der unzugänglichen Insel zu roden, eine Infrastruktur anzulegen und Lebensmittel anzubauen. Die Menschen starben zu Hunderten an Unterernährung, brutalen Gewaltübergriffen und Seuchen. Nur sehr selten war es dem berühmten Schriftsteller vergönnt, schreiben zu dürfen; dennoch gelang es ihm, zahlreiche Werke zu verfassen, darunter die berühmte Romantetralogie „Bücher der Insel Buru“. Er schrieb aber auch Tagebucheinträge, Essays und Briefe, die zum allergrößten Teil jedoch konfisziert und vernichtet wurden.

Tales from Djakarta is a collection of thirteen short stories written between 1948 and 1956 - a period of bitter transition from the revolutionary era to the beginnings of military rule in Indonesia. These stories not only give us a taste of Pramoedya's earlier writings, but also lead us on a tragic tour through mid-century Jakarta with her downtrodden residents as our guides.

This is the 4th, and final novel about Minke, but this one is narrated by Pangemanann, a native policeman assigned to monitor Minke and his followers.

This collection of fiction from around the world is concerned with censorship taboos and includes work from writers who remain censored, exiled or imprisoned. It includes writing by Willaim Trevor, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Aicha Lemsing and Breyten Breytenbach.

Minke is a young Javanese student of great intelligence and ambition. Living equally among the colonists and colonized of 19th-century Java, he battles against the confines of colonial strictures. It is his love for Annelies that enables him to find the strength to embrace his world.