| Summary: | Perjalanan ke Akhirat (PkA) by Djamil Suherman (DS) represented a novel
that was originally published as serial stories in Sastra magazine No. 3-7, Year II,
1962. PkA was given second award of the magazine. It was a novel with religious
theme containing interesting signs that found responses of both domestic and
international readers. The study aimed at uncovering the insight of death, the
meaning of �life� after death through the signs and the moral messages of death
found in the novel.
It used semiotic-pragmatic theory on the ground that literature works
represented meaningful sign system and the the meaning of the signs was given by
the readers. It employed semiotic-pragmatic method. At semiotic level the center of
the meaning or the key word was �the life� after death in the novel. Pragmatic level
was used to uncover the moral messages of the death based on the meaning of �the
life� after death in the novel.
The results of the study showed that the insight of death in the PkA was based
on Islamic insight. It was based on al-Quran and al-Hadits suggesting that there
would be a life after death, which was the hereafter or the beyond (akhirat). The
meaning of �the life� after death was given through the signs found in the novel,
which were death happening, the place and time between death and the Last
Judgement (barzakh), judgement day, resurrection, gathering place on the day of
resurection (mahsyar), blessing (safaat), the Last Judgement (hisab) and the final
determination of heaven or hell.
The morals found in the novel were (a) the morals of death happening, which
were being patient and sincere or with whole heart and soul in facing death
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