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Written while Pramoedya Ananta Toer was imprisoned by the Dutch for his role in the Indonesian revolution after World War II, The Fugitive was his first major novel and the first to be published in the United States. Set during the final days of World War II, The Fugitive tells the harrowing story of a young platoon leader who has led a failed nationalist revolt against Japanese forces occupying Indonesia. Betrayed by a co-conspirator and forced to disguise himself as a beggar, he sets out to find his fiancee, while eluding the military forces who will kill him if they capture him. Combining acute political and social criticism with a gripping, deeply moving narrative, this timeless story of a soldier's return home will haunt the memories of all who read it.
- Sales Rank: #2175738 in Books
- Published on: 2000-12-01
- Released on: 2000-12-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .50" h x 5.14" w x 7.74" l, .30 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 128 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Young Indonesian platoon commander Raden Hardo, his nationalist army revolt quashed by a traitorous coconspirator, returns to Java in disguise only to be betrayed to the Japanese. Written in 1947, while Pramoedya was in a Dutch forced-labor camp, "this shattering tale is a microcosm of innumerable personal tragedies, of lives pulverized by war and conquest," said PW.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Indonesian novelist Toer has been a political prisoner in his native land for much of his writing life: All the novels by this winner of the 1988 PEN Freedom Award, including this, his first, have been banned by the Indonesian government. Written in 1947 while Toer was imprisoned in a forced labor camp, this is the powerfully told story of Raden Hardo, betrayed by a fellow officer while leading a revolt against the Japanese army. Disguised as a beggar, Hardo flees through the countryside, for if he is captured he will be executed. Hoping to see his fiancee, Hardo cautiously returns to his native village, where he encounters his father and future father-in-law. Although he refuses to reveal his identity to his family, he is recognized and betrayed again, thus setting into motion a tragic chain of events. Toer's tough, unsentimental style forcefully expresses his view of art as an instrument for political protest and change. Recom mended.
- Christine Stenstrom, New York Law Sch. Lib.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
Pramoedya Ananta Toer...is Indonesia's Albert Camus. -- San Francisco Chronicle
[The Fugitive] gathers power, and by the gripping and horrifying ending Pramoedya has drawn the reader into his world. -- Chicago Tribune
Most helpful customer reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
War's Toll in Indonesia
By James W. Fonseca
A short novel by the classic Indonesian author. Like most of his other work, it focuses on the wars of his country fighting first for independence from the Dutch colonial occupiers and then from the Japanese after their invasion in WW II. Our hero in the book revolted against the Japanese and is now a hunted fugitive disguised as a beggar. So far he has survived several manhunts but just before the defeat of the Japanese he is captured while visiting his home area. His father and fianc�e are being held as hostages pending his capture. We are told in the introduction that the book is structured as a Javanese shadow-box puppet play. It has a repetitive negative theme to each of its four chapters: “No, I will not go home; no I am not your son, he lies to his elderly father; no I am not sentimental in still having faith in my childhood friend who betrayed our trust, and no, his fianc�e says, I don’t know where the fugitive is.” Like the author’s other work, including All That is Gone, which I have reviewed, the main theme is the human toll of warfare.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Fascinating, but uneven in tone
By Mary Whipple
Published in Indonesia in 1950, this very early novel by Indonesia's foremost author focuses on the final days of the Japanese occupation during World War II. The main character, Hardo, and two soldier friends had aided the Japanese in ousting the Dutch colonials who had ruled the country for years, their ultimate goal being the independence of the country. After becoming disillusioned by the Japanese, they had attempted a coup, only to have it fail because of betrayal by one of the men. The novel focuses on Hardo, running for his life ever since, in three encounters he has while disguised as a beggar, each encounter showcasing the conflicting loyalties within the country, and developing the suspense.
Though the novel is intriguing and its powerful descriptions of nature are absolutely stunning, it is strangely inconsistent in tone and feels stylistically fragmented. Hardo's first encounter, with his future father-in-law, is positively operatic, resembling a duet between wooden characters, their dueling voices swirling around almost like a canon. "Come to the house," the traitorous father-in-law says, echoing the invitation more than fifteen times, offering Hardo, disguised as a beggar, a variety of enticements, each of which he refuses. In the second encounter, with his own father, the operatic style dies, more communication takes place, and a narrative emerges. The third section, a meeting with co-conspirator Dipo, several others involved in the rebellion, Japanese officers, and the father-in-law is a fully developed theatrical scene, tying together the narrative and themes through dialogue.
With the novel's structure echoing a variety of genres and its characters subordinated to theme, I found it difficult to become emotionally involved with the characters themselves, however much I might have been sympathetic to their plight and fascinated by the subject matter. The novel clearly presages the greatness which comes to fruition in Pramoedya's later tetralogy, This Earth of Mankind, however, and I highly recommend it as an introduction to his more mature work. Mary Whipple
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Open Your Eyes
By K. Gibson
It was my good fortune to discover and read this book many years ago. I recently bought fresh copies to share with others.
Other reviewers for Amazon see certain aspects of this novel as faults while I see them as virtues.
Mary Whipple's very useful comments remindeded me of the distinctions in tone with which Pramoedya characterizes conversations between the different players. Mary, if you can speak to your mother-in-law as informally, comfortably and confidently as you speak to your mother (is that a bad example) you are rare, even in America, or long married. Consider the traditional culture of Indonesia half a century ago. I think Pramoedya is telling us something by the way he says something even more than by what he says.
S. Kelly, who seems forced to be in Indonesia and forced to read Pramoedya, is in my heaven. I was in Jakarta on a quick business trip, two decades ago. When I came home I told my wife I had fallen in love with a country I hardly knew. Pramoedya helps me maintain the affair. Consider "The Fugitive" in the context of the land that brought the world the shadow play.... You might like "The Girl from the Coast."
For those with a hearty appetite I recommend the Buru Quartet - four novels "written" through oral recitation and memorization committed to print once the author was out of prison. This man is a literary giant and a political hero.
Please note that this slim paperback is way overpriced at the publisher's list price. I got my new copy from amazingsalebooks, an Amazon seller, for $9.35 including shipping. The pristine, new copy arrived in two days by USPS. I am only allowed to give a paperback copy to one of my former students who finds himself a prisoner at juvenile hall. My new hardcover copy (also pristine) cost less than the paperback!
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