Hamzah junus amir editor (1 resultados)

Frist edition, 7" x 4¾" ( 17.8 x 12.5 cm), pp. 198; text slightly toned, else a very good copy in black and blue wrappers. A documentary compilation of the literary controversy surrounding Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah's famous novel Tenggelamnya Kapal van der Wijck. Compiled and introduced by Junus Amir Hamzah, with the assistance of H. B. Jassin, the work gathers material from the early 1960s over allegations that Hamka's novel had drawn too closely on al-Manfaluthi's Magdalaine/Madjdulin, itself adapted from Alphonse Karr's Sous les Tilleuls. A significant source for the study of Indonesian literary controversy, authorship, and the politicized literary culture of the early 1960s.…