Examples of Short Novels in Indonesian

According to the kbbi.kemendikbud.go.id page, a novel is defined as a long prose essay that contains the story of a person's life and his environment. Characters in novels will usually be highlighted by their character and nature. Compared to short stories, novels tend to be longer than short stories because novels tell stories that are much broader and more complex than short stories. From in terms of content story, the novel not only tells the life of a person, but the environment and the people around him. This is different from short stories which only tell the life of a character in particular and in detail.

To find out what the contents of a novel are like, this article will show an example of a short part of the novel, where the example is as follows!

Priyayi (Chapter Lantip)*

By: Umar Kayam

My name is Lantip. Ah no. My real name is very rural–ndeso–Wage. According to wall (mother) me, the name was given because I was born on Saturday Wage. I got the name Lantip later when I started living in the house of the Sastrodarsono family, on Jalan Setenan, Wanagalih city. Before, I lived together

wall I am in Wanalawas Village which is only a few kilometers from Wanagalih town. According to the story, Wanalawas Village is village the forerunner of the city of Wanagalih, especially when Mataram saw this area as a strategic area. Madiun was ordered by Mataram to develop the area into a bustling area. Then beddol Mataram was ordered to fill the area, where the village of Wanalawas was one of the villages that was broken up to become part of Wanagalih.

From a fairly large village, Wanalawas Village has shrunk into a small village. One of the families living in Wanalawas is an ancestor wall me. According to wall me, they are village people who farm rice, secondary crops, and a little tobacco. The rice fields are not that big; just one or two smells. It's also a cistern rain, because the location of the rice fields is far from the river that can irrigate the fields.

In addition to rice fields, my ancestral family is also a family of tempe producers. My father… well, I don't remember ever knowing him. Embok always said my father went far to make money. It was only years later that when I became part of the Sastrodarsono household, I had a little idea who my father was when I was often yelled atsis teacher kakung (grandfather). Even though the person is kind and fair, esis teacher kakung also loud and when angry likes to yell while misuh (swearing)….

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This is an example of a short novel in English Indonesia. If the reader wants to add reference about novels and prose, readers can open the following articles, namely: types of novels, example of a translated novel, example of a novel book review, example of a novel synopsis, types of prose,types of old prose, as well as articles new kinds of prose.

As for the discussion of this article, it will suffice here. Hopefully it is useful and able to add new insights for all readers, both about novels in particular, and learning materials language Indonesia in general. Please forgive if there are errors in this article. That is all and thank you.

*Umar Kayam, Priyayi, (Jakarta: Graffiti, 2012), pp. 10-11. In this article, there are several parts of the writing that have been changed from the original text to make it easier to read.