The Transformation of the Wedding Night in Serat Centhini into the Novel Amongraga dan Tambangraras: Empat Puluh Malam di Pelaminan

Abstract

Serat Centhini work Pakubuwana V during the Surakarta Keraton era was a work composed​ in song macapat. Greatness Serat Centhini is characterized by various matter content, including art, plants, language, literature, ethics, sexology, petungan, history, medicine, flora, fauna, and so on, which are poured out in more than 3.000 pages. As work, Big Serat Centhini transformed into modern Indonesian novels. At least there are 8 titles of modern Indonesian novels, a transformation from Serat Centhini, one of them is the novel Amongraga dan Tambangraras: Empat Puluh Malam di Pelaminan (next) called the novel Centhini by Ardian Kresna (2015). This study examines the transformation of Serat Centhini in the novel Centhini, which focuses on the transformation of action figure Syekh Amongraga and Niken Tambangraras in the Malam Pengantin episode, also known as the story 40 Malam di Pelaminan in Serat Centhini, as well as the Centhini novel. This study utilises the theory transformation developed by Teuw (1983), Pradopo (1986), Jauss (1984), and Wiryamartana (1990). This study utilizes the method or technique of comparative literature, namely comparing the actions of Syekh Amongraga and Niken Tambangraras in Serat Centhini and the novel Centhini. Results of the study show occurrence transformation in the form of reduction, deviation, and addition in the novel Centhini from Serat Centhini.