SOLEYN FENIX

In 1975, a professor, Eurasian Marcellanus Serrulaz, presents his graduate students with incomprehensible texts from the 1830s, written in Dutch Indoneisa, which he has discovered and sneaked home. The professor is in a panic because he cannot understand the peculiar polylingual writings of English-Balinese coarsair and poet, Alsandair I Dewa Deverell, a distinguished veteran of the British Invasion of Java, August, 1811. One of the professor's graduate students, Desmond Javaleine, becomes obses