Fiction, Suffering, and Apathy: Is Life Like Jazz?
To me, that's the unique quality of jazz. It's entertainment, sure, but it's a form of entertainment that's full of grief and stricken with bitterness."
Seno Gumira Adjidarma, Jazz, Perfume, and the Incident
May 21, 2013
Jazz, Perfume & the Incident
By Seno Gumira Adjidarma
Translated by George Harris
Published by the Lontar Foundation
Modern Library of Indonesian Literature Series
The novel's narrator, a jaded andat first glancehopelessly cynical journalist, sits in his office contemplating a particularly stunning sunset. The phone rings. Annoyed, he picks up to find that the caller is a woman sitting in a building across from his. They carry on a shameless flirta
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