Minggu, 19 Agustus 2012

Fiksi Lotus : Kumcer Klasik Online

Baru-baru ini saya mendapatkan tugas resensi buku dari sekolah. Untuk memenuhinya, tentu saya harus mencari contoh-contoh resensi buku dong? Nah, setelah keliling-keliling puluhan halaman, ketemu lah halaman menarik ini.



Fiksi Lotus merupakan sebuah laman yang berisikan kumpulan fiksi pendek klasik dunia. Situs yang dikelola seorang penulis Indonesia ini, Maggie Tiojakin, didesain dengan simple namun apik. Kumpulan cerpen di Fiksi Lotus merupakan karya-karya fiksi pendek klasik yang 'dirangkai' oleh penulis mancanegara. Karya-karya tersebut telah diterjemahkan kedalam Bahasa Indonesia sehingga kita sebagai pembaca dari Indonesia dapat turut menikmati karya-karya mereka.

‘Karya Klasik’ di Fiksi Lotus berpotensi mengubah hidup atau perspektif pembacanya. Karya tersebut dapat mengubah cara kita memandang dunia hingga akan selalu lekat di kepala, juga di hati. Oleh sebab itu, fiksi pendek yang ditampilkan di sini bisa saja baru diterbitkan tahun lalu, atau dua hari lalu atau seabad lalu — karena karya klasik adalah karya yang tak mengenal waktu.[1]



Buku kumpulan cerita pendek klasik yang diambil dari situs tersebut, FIKSI LOTUS: Vol. 1 (Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2012) kini telah hadir di toko-toko buku terdekat Anda. Buku ini berisi 14 cerpen klasik pilihan karya penulis mancanegara yang telah diterjemahkan. 14 cerpen tersebut antara lain:
~TEKA-TEKI – Walter De La Mare
~RAMUAN CINTA – John Collier
~SANG AYAH – Bjornstjerne Bjornson
~PEMBERIAN SANG MAGI – O Henry
~MENEMBUS BATAS – Saki
~DILEMA SANG KOMANDAN – Stephen Crane
~PERSINGGAHAN MALAM – Ernest Hemmingway
~GEGAP GEMPITA – Anton Chekov
~CHARLES – Shirley Jackson
~DERING TELEPON – Dorothy Parker
~PESAN SANG KAISAR – Franz Kafka
~REPUBLICK – Naguib Mahfouz
~MENJELANG FAJAR – Jean-Paul Sartre
~KALUNG MUTIARA – W.Somerset Maugham
Resensi mengenai buku tersebut dapat dibaca di sini

Beberapa dari cerpen tersebut dapat diintip versi daring (online) nya di situs Fiksi Lotus yakni fiksilotus.com/arsip/

Dari semua cerpen yang telah saya baca di Fiksi Lotus, yang paling menarik menurut saya adalah Dering Telepon, Pesta Makan Malam, dan Lotere.

Selamat membaca!

Senin, 30 Juli 2012

I Want A Boyfriend!


Are you unable to get a boyfriend? Are you lonely yet you long to have someone in your life that would love and cherish you? Is it just bad luck or are there some reasons why you can't get a boyfriend?

i. Inability to love yourself. Yes I know you thought that he couldn't know how badly you feel about yourself... but it actually shows in various ways.

>Your physical appearance. You do not have to look a certain way in-order to love your body. Do you take care of your appearance? Do you stand up straight and confident? Or are you generally disheveled and dressed in clothes that do not flatter your body? And do you spend most of your time bent over in a bid to study the floor? If so then your body and physical appearance is telling him that you are unhappy and will probably bring that unhappiness to him... so he stays as far from you as is possible.

>Inability to receive compliments. Another reason why you cannot get a boyfriend is your inability to actually believe that anyone (even the guy that you like) can think highly of you. When someone compliments you... what do you do? Do you turn away from the person and mumble something or do you deny the validity of the compliment by trying to explain it away or do you find a way to discount the compliment or do you change the subject without acknowledging the compliment? A man wants to know that he can make you happy so if his words of praise are always deflected then he feels that he cannot please you so he avoids you.

ii. Inability to love others. Yes you think that you love your friends and family members BUT if you have no problems bad mouthing them to others then you may not really love them. Do you have something bad to say about everyone (even your best friends)? Do you have to be the centre of attraction... and will do anything to steal the limelight. If someone notices how beautiful another gal is... are you the 1st to say something nasty about her in a bid to show that she isn't that great? You are not building yourself in his eyes... you are showing him that you are not to be trusted which is why you can't get a boyfriend.

>Inability to give compliments. Are you able to see good in others and compliment them on that good? When is the last time you gave someone a genuine compliment? Do you spend your time being jealous of others and thus completely unable to say anything good to them? You can't get a boyfriend if you cannot appreciate other people... or if you spend all your energy on jealous resentment.

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