“The Dusk of Buddhist Era and Recalling the Memory of the Black Rose Cat”: Similarities in differences with world-class novels “One Hundred Years of Solitude”

Abstract

The Dusk of Buddhist Era and Recalling the Memory of the Black Rose Cat, the second novel of Veeraporn Nitiprapha, which has won the ASEAN Creative Literature Award (SEA Write) of the year 2018. This novel has a storyline and some of the stories similar to world novels, namely One Hundred Years of solitude, the work that made Gabriel Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, and this article aims to analyze the similarities between the two novels. The analysis results showed that both novels use the style of miracle realism. The plot is similar in various issues, including family genealogy, immigrating to a new location; the scenes in the story are related to historical events, the room in the house of the family, the curse that determines the fate of the character, opening of story, tying the knot and releasing of the knot of the story. The clearly different part is the narrative strategy, that is to say, the Dark Buddhist Era Recalling of the Memory of the Black Rose Cat is the story that is told through the memory of one character to characters that are not part of the event but the narrator, whereas One Hundred Years of Solitude was the voice of the narrator who are watching the event.