Mafeking Road: And Other Stories - Brossura

Bosman, Herman Charles

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0979333067 ISBN 13: 9780979333064

Casa editrice: Archipelago Books, 2008

Riassunto

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 (19051951) 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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"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

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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 a North West Province farming town district of Groot Marico, Bosman wrote the first stories of Mafeking Road during a brief imprisonment for killing his stepbrother.

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• Editore: Archipelago Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0979333067
• ISBN 13: 9780979333064
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 201