Macabre, grim and tragic
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Authors
Lloyd, David
Issue Date
2003
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Article
Language
en
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Herman Charles Bosman , South African Literature , A cask of jerepigo , Unto dust and other stories
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Abstract
Apart from commercial novels such as those of
Wilbur Smith, the stories and miscellaneous writing
of Herman Charles Bosman (1905±1951) have become
amongst the most popular works in South African
English literature. Although they have seldom been
out of print once they gained a wide audience in the
early 1960s, the new Anniversary Editions of his
works under the general editorship of Stephen Gray
and Craig MacKenzie, running into nine volumes, are
particularly welcome. They are attractively produced,
thoroughly edited and are prefaced by useful,
scholarly researched introductions which are never-
theless eminently readable. Thus, the reader is
provided with important background material con-
cerning Bosman's vision of literature, his sense of
South Africa and its political destiny.
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Lloyd, David 2003. 'Macabre, grim and tragic.A Cask of jerepigo, Herman Charles Bosman. Stephen Gray (ed.) : review; Unto dust' and other stories, Herman Charles Bosman. Craig Mackenzie (ed.) : review.' Scrutiny2, 8(2): 69-72
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Unisa Press
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00415359