Pemaparannya mengingatkan saya pada ‘gaya’ (kalau boleh saya sebut demikian) Charles Dickens: ‘bercerita’, mengalir, dan tiba-tiba ‘menukik’ ke ending. Kita tidak ‘dibebani’ persoalan rumit. Kita bahkan diajak mengembara ke kehidupan antah-berantah, yang anehnya, sebetulnya justru membawa kita masuk ke ‘kehidupan’ kita sendiri.
His style reminds me of the style of Charles Dickens: telling the story, flows, and suddenly had brought us to the end. We don’t borne by difficult things moreover we leaded to the “never land”, which is brought us to our own lives.
YANUSA NUGROHO, novelist, author of "Manyura", "Segulung Cerita Tua"
Respon Sosial
Dalam beberapa cerpennya, Donny berhasil menciptakan dunia rekaan yang terasa aneh namun berangkat dari penghayatannya terhadap berbagai masalah sosial di sekitarnya…
In his short stories, Donny had created imaginary world that seems extraordinary but it based on reflection of his surroundings...
SAPARDI DJOKO DAMONO,poet,author of "Hujan Bulan Juni"
Bikin penasaran
Cerpen-cerpen DNA membuat orang penasaran membacanya sampai selesai
karena kejutan sering muncul di akhir cerpen...
Short stories of DNA made had raised up the reader’s curiosity and keep them read his work till the end because the ending always suprising...
PAMUSUK ENESTE, literature critic, senior editor from GRASINDO
The bulk of the collection is eight short stories that are set in yesteryear. The compilation is filled out with four entertaining fantasy pieces and three poems.
'Coruscated Confabulations' is a collection of stories and experiences, most of which took place in prior decades. They are taken from or based upon real events, with a certain admixture of fictional embellishments.
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry is a powerful literary vision of rare scope, beauty and emotional intensity composed of stories and poems that flow in and out of each other like the most lucid and articulate of dreams. These are portraits and studies of
