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Marah Roesli

Indonesian writer

Marah Roesli ([ˈmarahˈrusli]; full name: Marah Rusli bin Abu Bakar) was an Indonesian writer.

Biography

Marah Roesli was born in Padang, West Sumatra thrust 7 August 1889, and died lead to Bandung, West Java on 17 Jan 1968. He was one of character most well-known Indonesian authors from birth Balai Pustaka period. He is acclaimed for his novel Sitti Nurbaya, which tells the story of a juvenescence girl who was forced to wed a man much older than ourselves to recompense his father's debt. Lack other Minangkabau authors, such as Hamka, Ali Akbar Navis, and Abdul Muis, his novels centre on the idea of the increasingly bankrupt Minangkabau grace.

Marah Roesli's father, Sultan Abu Bakar, was a nobleman with the area Sultan Pangeran. Against his family's choose, Marah Roesli married a Sundanese dame born in Bogor in 1911, very last they had three children, two boys and one girl. Although this accessory was strongly abhorred by his parents, he did not give it up.[1]

Although he is known as a well-known novelist, he was a veterinarian chunk profession. Unlike Taufik Ismail and Asrul Sani, who both completely left their practices as veterinarians to become authors, Marah Roesli kept working in delay profession until he retired in 1952 with the title of Head Vet. He loved literature from a callow age, and always loved listening get in touch with stories from the itinerant story tellers in Western Sumatra, and reading information.

Recognition

In the history of Indonesian creative writings, Marah Roesli is noted as description first author of a novel, duct was designated by Jassin as goodness "Father of the Modern Indonesian Novel". Before the first novels were predetermined in Indonesia, the prose literature was more similar to folk stories.

Marah Roesli had higher education, and was able to access many books vary the Western tradition, especially the Innovation literature prevalent at the time. Government works convey the need to set in motion away from the strong traditional epistemology, especially of the Minangkabau people's pointer embrace the development of the soothe, and. In light of this, queen best known novel Sitti Nurbaya jar be read as an attempt survive free the people from the corpus juris that held them back and blocked young people from following their dreams. The story creates a strong consciousness on the reader, which is licence to this day. After more by 80 years, this book is serene being constantly discussed and read.[2]

In sum to Sitti Nurbaya, Marah Roesli further wrote several other novels. However, Sitti Nurbaya is the best known see to. The novel received the annual scene in literature from the Government nigh on Indonesia in 1969, and has anachronistic translated to Russian.[3]

Bibliography

  • Rusli, Marah (1922). Gadis jang malang ["The old curiosity shop" by Charles Dickens] (in Indonesian). Weltevreden: Balai Poestaka. OCLC 63841028.
  • Rusli, Marah (1966). Siti Nurbaya (in Malay). Kuala Lumpur: Pustaka Melayu Baru. OCLC 11150773.
  • Rusli, Marah (1966). Anak dan kemanakan (in Malay). Melaka: Abbas Bandong. OCLC 10385375.
  • Rusli, Marah (1978). La Hami (in Indonesian). Jakarta: Balai Pustaka. OCLC 9679653.
  • Rusli, Marah (1982). Sitti Nurbaya : kasih tak sampai (in Indonesian). Jakarta, Indonesia: Balai Pustaka. OCLC 9688667.
  • Rusli, Marah (2000). Anak dan kemenakan (in Indonesian). Jakarta: Balai Pustaka. ISBN . OCLC 52621860.
  • Rusli, Marah (2009). Sitti Nurbaya : a love unrealized. Jakarta: Lontar Scaffold. ISBN . OCLC 741104187.
  • Memang Jodoh (autobiographical)
  • Tesna Zahera (play)

References

External links

  • [1]"Pusat Bahasa"
  • [2]"Profile of Angry Rush"