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Author Andrea can't understand women
SURABAYA: Andrea Hirata might have knocked out his last three successful works at rapid speed, but his inability to understand women is now giving him writer's block
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SURABAYA: Andrea Hirata might have knocked out his last three successful works at rapid speed, but his inability to understand women is now giving him writer's block.
His best-selling first novel,Laskar Pelangi (Rainbow Warrior) only took him three weeks to finish.
He also had no problem completing the second and third novels in his tetralogy, Sang Pemimpi (The Dreamer) and Edensor, wrapping up the works in several weeks.
But the last novel in the series, titled Maryamah Karpov, has taken him months and is still not completed.
Andrea, who is currently waiting for a film based on Laskar Pelangi to be released, said writing the fourth novel had not come easily because he finds it hard to understand women.
"I only know one thing about women, that women cannot be judged on how they seems. Even Sigmund Freud knew that. The more he studied women, the more he was at a loss," he told Antara during a book discussion in Surabaya, East Java.
The single author, who finished his master's degree in economics at the Sorbonne in France, said that womens' minds were like a labyrinth.
"Men often claim they know women. They don't," he said --JP
