Reviews for George Turner: A Life

The average rating for George Turner: A Life based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-09-20 00:00:00 Frank Gavrilos updating: [eh, sekarang udah punya sendiri, lagi dibaca ulang:] pernah baca dan sekarang hanya punya fotokopinya. saya memperlakukan buku ini sebagai pemberi data mengenai masa-masa pergolakan di awal surakarta dan di akhir kartasura, ketika adaptasi naskah-naskah islam [melayu:]dilakukan di istana kraton jawa pedalaman. bagaimana orang pedalaman ingin dianggap maju, setara dengan orang lain di dunia waktu itu. pada masa ini orang menganggap terjadinya renesans sastra jawa. --- saya baca lagi bagian belakang, jelang kesimpulan penutup, mengenai makam sinuhn pakubuwana yang ada di lawiyan. makam keturunan sultan agung ini mengapa ada di lawiyan, dan tidak di imagiri? menurut cerita, makam yang dilawiyan ini kosong, karena sri susuhunan sudah ada di imagiri. ada cerita mengenai lubang makam yang tidak cukup, ada versi lain bahwa yg di lawiyan ini ada mahkotanya... ini susuhunan yang tragis, memerintah ketika ada kekuatan2 besar bersilangan di sekitarnya: islam, VOC, jawa yang ingin tetap jawa..

Review # 2 was written on 2019-04-09 00:00:00 SHINICHI NAKAMIZO This is a heavy tome in many ways. For years I re-read and treasured a totally pirated edition of Journal of Katherine Mansfield, which I had re-bound last year (and the stinky printer removed the original cover, against my specific instructions to bind it in as part of the book! Not only that, they threw it away!!) A few years ago (or perhaps many, I forget) I bought this complete edition, along with some of Mansfield's stories. It weighs about 3 pounds, and that's in paperback. Mansfield had a habit of going through her letters and papers and burning them periodically--which at the rate she moved around England and France is hardly surprising. How glad I am that she didn't actually destroy quite all of the "huge complaining diaries" that she felt took so much time away from her real work as an author. Because to be honest, I prefer her journals--but then I am a snoop by nature. I'd never read your personal notebook without permission, but I do like to read collections of letters and diaries. Mansfield's are masterly depictions of a mood, a scene, a moment, all that "external life" that she loved so much--but a great deal of her internal life as well. The facsimiles of some pages show the enormous task the editor set herself. Mansfield's writing was by her own admission impossibly bad. Was it a way to enforce secrecy? It may have been. OTOH, it may simply be that writing with a nib and ink makes scribblers of busy people. It certainly would me, and I have nothing like her excuse. The editor manages to clarify some obscure passages, and some that J. M. Murray bowdlerised; I refuse to accept that he could misinterpret her handwriting to that degree, given the content of some of the changed texts. He either wanted to protect his own ego or Mansfield's "image."