The Atheist
a novel
Atheis (The Atheist), first published in 1949, portrays the spiritual and intellectual crisis of Hasan, a young Muslim who is raised to be devout but comes to doubt his faith after becoming involved with a group of modern young people. Upon publication, religious thinkers, Marxist-Leninists, as well as anarchists decried the novel for not explaining their ideologies in more detail; but literary figures and many in the general public praised it. The novel, considered to be a masterpiece of modern Indonesian literature, is included in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Literary Works.
| The Lontar Foundation, Oct. 5, 2015, 216 pages | ||||
| Languages: | English | |||
| Translators: | RJ Maguire | |||
| ISBNs: | 9786029144161 (PRINT), 9789881463937 (EBOOK) | |||
| Keywords: | Lontar, Modern Library of Indonesia, self-discovery, society, Islam, faith, crisis, muslim, history, culture, coming-of-age, religion, Asia | |||
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