Mafeking Road: And Other Stories
Autor Herman Charles Bosmanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2008
“It will be a tragedy for the creative process if we parents, both black and white, deny our children the opportunity to read [Herman Charles] Bosman.”—Johnny Masilela
“Bosman knows what to tell us and when, and most importantly he knows what not to tell us. To this he adds a subtle and simple treatment of deep reflections, a rural ‘sit-back-and-relax’ feel, and an ability for remarkably poignant description. The result is a classic set of stories, deserving of world attention to match the attention it already receives in Bosman’s home country.”—David Lahti
He seemed to have nothing but what the sun and the sand and the grass had given him, and yet that was more than what all the men in the world could give him. In the voice of the sly old Bushveld storyteller Oom Schalk Lourens, Herman Charles Bosman tells tales of love, jealousy, betrayal, and friendship in a rural South Africa at the turn of the century. It is a fusion of satire and raw emotion in a politically fraught era. Mafeking Road was chosen as one of the twenty-five classics for the South Africa Reads program.
Herman Charles Bosman (1905–1951) is widely considered the greatest short story writer of South Africa, known for infusing the cadence of Afrikaans speech into his English-language writing. Drawing upon his experiences living in the Transvaal farming town district of Groot Marico, Bosman wrote the first stories of Mafeking Road (his most celebrated collection) during a brief imprisonment for killing his stepbrother.
“Bosman knows what to tell us and when, and most importantly he knows what not to tell us. To this he adds a subtle and simple treatment of deep reflections, a rural ‘sit-back-and-relax’ feel, and an ability for remarkably poignant description. The result is a classic set of stories, deserving of world attention to match the attention it already receives in Bosman’s home country.”—David Lahti
He seemed to have nothing but what the sun and the sand and the grass had given him, and yet that was more than what all the men in the world could give him. In the voice of the sly old Bushveld storyteller Oom Schalk Lourens, Herman Charles Bosman tells tales of love, jealousy, betrayal, and friendship in a rural South Africa at the turn of the century. It is a fusion of satire and raw emotion in a politically fraught era. Mafeking Road was chosen as one of the twenty-five classics for the South Africa Reads program.
Herman Charles Bosman (1905–1951) is widely considered the greatest short story writer of South Africa, known for infusing the cadence of Afrikaans speech into his English-language writing. Drawing upon his experiences living in the Transvaal farming town district of Groot Marico, Bosman wrote the first stories of Mafeking Road (his most celebrated collection) during a brief imprisonment for killing his stepbrother.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780979333064
ISBN-10: 0979333067
Pagini: 201
Dimensiuni: 145 x 163 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS
Locul publicării:Canada
ISBN-10: 0979333067
Pagini: 201
Dimensiuni: 145 x 163 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS
Locul publicării:Canada
Recenzii
"Herman Charles Bosman's prose is easy as breathing and light as breath itself, perfectly suited for capturing, as he does, those small, precious otherwise fleeting moments in which gathered hope, colliding with given fact, defines, in a series of small steps, how we come to look upon life. I am jealous of the apparent ease with which he does this."—Lee Stringer
"The pacing and perspective of Bosman’s tales … are unlike anything else in English...The closest comparison may be Robert Frost poems or Bob Dylan songs."—Publishers Weekly
"The stories in Mafeking Road move between comedy and tragedy, often several times within the same story, and they detail loves lost, or lovers lost, or tragicomic encounters with the British, or family dramas, but each of the stories is masterfully executed and wonderfully written, and achieves its effects almost magically."—E.J. Van Lanen
"In the wild-dog reserves, up where South Africa meets the Botswana border, every guest-house room has a leather-bound copy of short stories by the teacher-killer-writer, Herman Charles Bosman."—Peter Stothard, Times Literary Supplement Online
"Bosman is disrespectful, subversive and lethal on the silly, savage ways of old South Africa. I’ve no doubt he would have been just as wicked about the new South Africa."—Christopher Hope
"The pacing and perspective of Bosman’s tales … are unlike anything else in English...The closest comparison may be Robert Frost poems or Bob Dylan songs."—Publishers Weekly
"The stories in Mafeking Road move between comedy and tragedy, often several times within the same story, and they detail loves lost, or lovers lost, or tragicomic encounters with the British, or family dramas, but each of the stories is masterfully executed and wonderfully written, and achieves its effects almost magically."—E.J. Van Lanen
"In the wild-dog reserves, up where South Africa meets the Botswana border, every guest-house room has a leather-bound copy of short stories by the teacher-killer-writer, Herman Charles Bosman."—Peter Stothard, Times Literary Supplement Online
"Bosman is disrespectful, subversive and lethal on the silly, savage ways of old South Africa. I’ve no doubt he would have been just as wicked about the new South Africa."—Christopher Hope
Notă biografică
Herman Charles Bosman (1905-1951), a household name in South Africa, was born near Cape Town but lived most of his life in the Transvaal. He spent the first six months of 1926 as a teacher at a farm school in the Marico District of what was then the Western Transvaal. His term was cut short when, on a vacation back at his family home in Johannesburg, he shot and killed his step-brother. He spent four years on death row in Pretoria Central Prison before his sentence was commuted. Upon his release in 1930, he took up a career as a journalist and began his celebrated Oom Schalk stories, which culminated in the publication of Mafeking Road in 1947. His first novel, Jacaranda in the Night, appeared the same year while his prison memoir, Cold Stone Jug, was published two years later. Bosman died of heart failure in October 1951. He has come to be widely considered South Africa's greatest short story writer.
Descriere
The Faulkner of South Africa: Transcendent glimpses into the human condition, of dreams and heartbreak, told with homespun wisdom.