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House of Glass

Pramoedya Ananta Toer · 1988 CE · Novel · Indonesian · Contemporary

The telling passes to Pangemanann, the French-educated police commissioner whose job is to watch the native movement and whose first assignment was to remove Minke from it. He keeps the confiscated manuscripts in his own house, reads them at night, drinks, and files the reports that break the men he most admires. The quartet closes from inside the colonial machine, narrated by the man operating it.

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Genre
HistoricalPoliticalPsychological
Theme
Guilt & ConsciencePower & CorruptionColonialismBetrayal
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Anti-HeroThe DoubleShadow
Plot structure
ConfessionChronicleUnreliable Narrator
Emotional arc (story shape)
Fall (Tragedy)
Quest object (Greimas)
Duty / Order
Symbol / motif
The Book / ManuscriptThe PrisonThe Mirror
Conflict
vs Selfvs Society
Mode / tone
RealistIronicTragic
Culture / tradition
Indonesian

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