WHEN Asrul Sani died, another generation got a home of its own.

He would be thankful for that. For this was what he dreamed of in Perumahan untuk Fadjria Noviari (A House for Fadjria Noviari): "I will build you a home.... the home I will give you is the history of life."

This prose work, published in 1951, emerged from Sani's journey home to the village of his birth, at the death of his father. It was as though the "I"