Tetralogi karya pramoedya ananta toer biography

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The Clash of Traditional and Modern Cultures in the Novels Samdae (Three Generations) by Yeom Sang Seop and Tetralogi Buru (Buru Quartet) by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

HUMANIORA Vol. 31, No. 2 (June 2019) page 188—198 https://jurnal.ugm.ac.id/jurnal-humaniora https://doi.org/10.22146/jh.v31i2.42797 The Clash of Traditional and Modern Cultures in the Novels Samdae (Three Generations) by Yeom Sang Seop and Tetralogi Buru (Buru Quartet) by Pramoedya Ananta Toer Febriani Elfida Trihtarani Department of Language and Literature, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia Email: febrianielfida08@ugm.ac.id ABSTRACT This study analyzes Korean writer Yeom Sang-seop's colonial-era novel Samdae (Three Generations) (1931) and Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Tetralogi Buru (Buru Quartet). Although Korea and Indonesia have different cultures, they share a history of colonization by imperial countries. The purpose of this study is to analyze the writers' cultural differences as they appear in these novels. Yeom Sang-seop’s Samdae (Three Generations) is shown to capture the conflict of traditional and modern cultures. In this novel, characters who follow traditional culture consider customs and honor very important. Meanwhile, the characters in Pramoedya’s quartet consider honor to be important. In Ye

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This Earth explain Mankind

January 21, 2010

“ Cerita..selamanya tentang manusia, kehidupannya, bukan kematiannya. Ya biarpun yang ditampilkannya itu hewan, raksasa atau dewa ataupun hantu. Dan tak ada yang lebih sulit dipahami daripada sang manusia.. jangan anggap remeh si manusia, yang kelihatannya begitu sederhana; biarpun penglihatanmu setajam mata elang; pikiranmu setajam pisau cukur, perabaanmu lebih peka daripada dewa, pendengaranmu dapat menangkap musik dan ratap tangis kehidupan; pengetahuanmu tentang manusia takkan bakal bisa kemput”

- Pramoedya Ananta Toer dalam Bumi Manusia –

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Aku adalah manusia. Tentu yang tak sempurna. Karena kealpaan dan lupa tak bisa lepas dariku. Aku hanyalah manusia biasa. Aku bukanlah dewa dengan segala ke-Maha-annya. Sempurna adalah kata yang tidak untukku.

Namaku Minke, setidaknya itulah sapaan orang-orang ketika memanggilku. Saking terlalu seringnya nama itu digunakan, hingga aku hampir lupa nama asliku. Nama yang diberikan oleh Bunda dan Ayanda yang dengan bersusah payah akhirnya berhasil menjadi Bupati B.

Sebagai keturunan priyayi Jawa, aku beruntung bisa mengenyam pendidikan ala Eropa. Ilmu pengetahuannya, budayanya, pergaulannya, bahasanya serta segala draft yang berbau Erop

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KURUSETRA

It was a long time ago when I first read Pram’s book, Bumi Manusia. I was a student of high school in Sumenep, East Madura.

A friend of mine who was a university student had a complete collection of Pulau Buru Tetralogy. He suggested me to read it because, as he said passionately that time, those books are important ones. They would be useful when I was going to study in university, he said.

So I read them without any idea how those books could be useful for me in the future. I thought that, after I had finished reading them, those books had no difference to other novels I had read, such as Di Bawah Lindungan Ka’bah by Hamka.

But they seemed special for me when I was studying in Nasional Islamic University of Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta. I had an impression that Pram presented history in a different way from the way schools presented it. History in Pram’s novels is not just history, it is an alternative history; a history that doesn’t officially released by the state.

Moreover, as I told in other place of my blog, Pram tried to make his readers conscious about their country. You will know Indonesia better after you read Pram’s novels, not only because they contain historical settings about Indonesia, but they also give a crit

tetralogi karya pramoedya ananta toer biography