“Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.”
Pramoedya Ananta Toer book Bumi Manusia
Source: Bumi Manusia
Quotes from bookBumi Manusia
Pramoedya Ananta ToerOriginal title Bumi Manusia (Indonesian, 1980)
This Earth of Mankind is the first book in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's epic quartet called Buru Quartet, first published by Hasta Mitra in 1980. The story is set at the end of the Dutch colonial rule and was written while Pramoedya was imprisoned on the political island prison of Buru in eastern Indonesia. The story was first narrated verbally to Pramoedya's fellow prisoners in 1973 because he did not get permission to write. The story spread through all the inmates until 1975 when Pramoedya was finally granted permission to write the detailed story.
“Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act.”
Pramoedya Ananta Toer book Bumi Manusia
Source: Bumi Manusia
“At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.”
Pramoedya Ananta Toer book Bumi Manusia
Source: This Earth of Mankind
