From The Plague to the Psyche
Monday, February 15, 2021
The Rancage Literary Award has for the 33rd time endowed the best works of literature in local languages. Instigated by literary giant Ajip Rosidi, the award provides impetus to provincial writers to preserve local languages on the brink of extinction.
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WHEN he wrote the novel Sasalad: Sempalan Épidemi di Tatar Garut (Sasalad: A Slice of Epidemic in Tatar Garut), Dadan Sutina decided to employ a form of Sundanese diction hardly ever used today. Some of the vocabulary is not even found in the Sundanese dictionary. Scores of words Dadan used originated from the time of the novel’s setting, mostly related to names of things and utensils. The novel is dotte
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