Saturday, April 30, 2011

Devil in Manuscript_essay

PUSPITA PALUPININGTYAS

The Devil in Manuscript

This story tells about a person (unnamed) who visits the friend who is mad by creating literature, Oberon. Oberon creates many kinds of literatures which embody the character of fiend and written record of witchcraft. He wants to represent them as tradition. He believes that every literature he made has strength of devil, but the person does not believe it. He supposes that it is just mystic. Oberon does not care about it, he has attempted to publish his literature to seventeen booksellers, but there is just one which would like to receive his literature. Oberon successes to publish his work through the book sellers receiving his. Oberon has a half the cost of an edition, and the higher percentage for the booksellers. Oberon then has been surprised when he knows that the book is not as same as his work. Now, he is desperate and sad. The person is just able to take a pity on him. He gives a support so that Oberon doesn’t give up. But Oberon doesn’t control his sadness, he is disappointed. Now he wants to burn his manuscript together with the fiend over there. He burns his manuscript and the fiend now just becomes a legend and a part of mystic.

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