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Fungsi sastra, melalui segala mutasinya, adalah menyadarkan kita akan partikularitas diri, dan otoritas diri yang tinggi dalam perselisihannya dengan masyarakat dan budayanya. Sastra dalam pengertian itu subversif. Asli: The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
