Armijn Pane's novel

It was encouraging to read of Ayu Utami's emergence as a new Indonesian literary talent.

But how sad to read in Prasetyohadi's article, April 5, that he attributed Armijn Pane's novel Belenggu (published in 1940) to "distinguished author Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana in 1933", clearly the level of literary criticism and review also languishes in (quoting Prasetyohadi) the "shadow of prevailing doom".

GLENN BRUCE

Jakarta

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