Abdul Muis - Abdul Muis

Japanese: アブドゥル・ムイス - あぶどぅるむいす
Abdul Muis - Abdul Muis

...Indonesia literature was established in the 1920s, with novels from the late 19th century to the early 20th century, such as G. Francis' Dasima the Native Wife (1896) and FDJ Pangemanan's Chonat the Bandit (1900), written in very common Malay, the common language of the colonial society at the time, depicting legendary incidents, so to speak, as literature on the eve of its birth. Abdul Muis' Salah Ashan (The Westernized) (1928) is a representative work of this period. In this novel, the author, who was also a nationalist, portrays the tragedy of a young Westernized official who abandons his village but is ultimately unable to be accepted into Dutch society and is ruined, with the protagonist's marriage to Kory, a woman of mixed European and Asian descent, as the theme. ...

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Japanese:

…具体的にはG.フランシスの《現地妻ダシマ》(1896),F.D.J.パンゲマナンの《野盗チョナット物語》(1900)など,世間の語り草となった事件を当時の植民地社会の共通語であったごく通俗的なマレー語で描いた,19世紀末から20世紀初頭にかけての小説をいわばその誕生前夜の文学としながら,インドネシア文学は1920年代に成立したと考えられる。アブドゥル・ムイスAbdul Muisの《サラー・アスハン(西洋かぶれ)》(1928)はこの期の代表的作品である。この小説の中で,民族主義者でもあった作者は,主人公と欧亜混血女性コリーとの結婚をテーマにして,村を捨て去りながら結局オランダ人社会にも入れられず破滅する西洋かぶれの青年官吏の悲劇を描いている。…

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