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Indonesian literature is a term grouping various genres of South-East Asian literature. Indonesian literature can refer to literature produced in the Indonesian archipelago . It is also used to refer more broadly to literature produced in areas with common language roots based on the Malay language (of which Indonesian is one scion ).
The Indonesian literary critic Maman S. Mahayana found Van der Wijck to have good characterisation and use suspense better than contemporary Balai Pustaka publications; he suggested that this was a benefit of the work originally being published as a serial.
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The Indonesian writer and literary critic Muhammad Balfas wrote in 1976 that Belenggu was "in every respect the best novel of pre-war Indonesian literature". [2] In his 1980 book on Indonesian literature, Teeuw wrote that despite several flaws in the psychological portrayal of the main characters, Belenggu was the only novel from before the ...
Pane applied the technique of interior monologue and used elliptical dots and dashes following incomplete sentences to indicate the doubts and uncertainties assailing a modern educated Indonesian man. [3] Due to both the style and content, the novel is regarded as a milestone in Indonesian literature. [6] His early short stories had a similar ...
Salah Asuhan is generally considered one of the most important works in modern Indonesian Literature and is commonly used as reading material in Indonesian literature classes. [ 2 ] Bakri Siregar wrote positively of Salah Asuhan , considering the diction unparalleled in its contemporaries and the characters well fleshed-out.
The work was the first history of Indonesian literature, as well as the last published work to apply Marxist theory to Indonesian literature up until 2000. [ 8 ] After the failed coup d'état – described by the government as having been led by the Indonesian Communist Party – on 30 September 1965, leftists were hunted by the military and ...
Aside from that, some critics such as H. B. Jassin consider the publication of Azab dan Sengsara to be the birth of modern Indonesian literature. Among the themes common to works published in the Balai Pustaka period are arranged marriage , conflict between the younger and older generations, and conflict between Western culture and traditional ...