... come to know through his personal friendship with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. For Wright as an artist, Asrul Sani sees this turn to intellectualism as a serious failure of judgment. The Outsider existentialism intellectualism Indonesian literature exile ...

... The paradox of the official world is that an indoor social life is at every moment oriented to the Great Outdoors. This chapter tracks the tactics of interaction—and noninteraction—that define a form of social life turned against itself. There is at once an “incrementalist turn” in recent...