Perbandingan Motif Novel Memoirs Of A Geisha Karya Arthur Golden Dengan Primadona Karya N. Riantiarno

This research aims to analyze the intertextuality between Primadona and Memoirs of a Geisha. Memoirs of a Geisha and Primadona were selected by an assumption that some texts were present inside another text. The source data of this study are Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha (2002) and N. Riantiarno’s Primadona (2006). The result of this research is the spell out of motif and character. Primadona as a novel that publish previously was expected as the text that underlying the birth of Memoirs of a Geisha. Beside, with the comparison of the similar aspects, relation the both of Memoirs of a Geisha and Primadona.