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Agaat Marlene van Niekerk publisher: Tafelberg Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, 2004 translated as: The Way of the Women publisher: Little, Brown, Co., Boston, 2007 translation: Michiel Heijns refered to by: The Grass is Singing Doris Lessing
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| BOOKS BY MARLENE VAN NIEKERK: [Die vrou wat haar verkyker vergeet het] ? | ||
| The Way of the Women 2004 | ||
| ON MARLENE VAN NIEKERK'S BOOKSHELF Daisy Miller Henry James, 1878 The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud, 1899 The Folly Ivan Vladislavic, 1993 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men James Agee, 1939 Novelist/ journalist Agee and photographer Walker Evans collaborated on this account of Alabama's poor white trash in the Depression years. Day-dawn in South Africa Gustav Preller, 1937 Tsotsi Athol Fugard, 1980 Novel by South African playwright Athol Fugard, with whose plays Triomf has often been compared: both authors have drawn richly from the 'comic vernacular' of Afrikaner life. Tales of Mystery and Imagination Edgar Allan Poe, 1833-1849 In his essay Haunted house, haunted nation: 'Triomf' and the South African postcolonial Gothic, Jack Shear describes the Benades as 'a modern, South African version of Poe's House of Usher, a family that finds itself face-to-face with its own generative demise.' | Triomf 1994 The story of four inhabitants of 127 Martha Street in the poor white suburb of Triomf in South Africa. Living on the ruins of Sophiatown, the freehold township razed to the ground as a 'black spot', they await with trepidation their country's first democratic elections. | WHAT TO READ AFTER TRIOMF? 'WHITE TRASH' Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor, 1949 God's Little Acre Erskine Caldwell, 1933 Diary Chuck Palahniuk, 2006 Gardening at Night Diane Awerbuck, 2003? Coming of age in the once-flourishing mining town of Kimberley in late 20th-century South Africa. As I Lay Dying William Faulkner, 1930 The Duck Hunt Hugo Claus, 1958 INCEST Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle Vladimir Nabokov, 1969 / 1990 (reissue edition) The Happy Hunting Grounds Nanne Tepper, 1995 Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1951 Mathilda Mary Shelley, By the author of Frankenstein: on her deathbed, Mathilda tells the story of her father's confession of incestuous love for her, followed by his suicide. Gemini Michel Tournier, 1975 The Holy Sinner Thomas Mann, 1951 POST-APARTHEID The Restless Supermarket Ivan Vladislavic, 2001 The Imposter Damon Galgut, 2008 Disgrace J.M. Coetzee, 1999 The personal crisis of a man whose life is problematized by South Africa's shifting cultural norms. The House Gun Nadine Gordimer, 1997 The Quiet Violence of Dreams K. Sello Duiker, 2001 Welcome to Our Hillbrow Phaswane Mpe, 2001 The story of Refentse, who comes to Johannesburg in search of an education. His optimism, youthful vigor and naïve enthusiasm are put to the test in a series of experiences typical of Hillbrow and Johannesburg, one of which leads to the happiest, and eventually, the most tragic moment of his life. SO SAD, YOU CAN'T HELP LAUGHING I Served the King of England Bohumil Hrabal, 1979 (first published in typescript) Zeno's Conscience Italo Svevo, 1923 Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett, 1952 Bouvard et Pécuchet Gustave Flaubert, 1913P Lolita Vladimir Nabokov, 1955 20,000 Streets Under the Sky Patrick Hamilton, 1935 Trilogie van semi-autobiografische romans: obsession and betrayal in a seedy pub in a run-down part of London. |
| Memorandum: a story with pictures 2006 | ||
| [Sprokkelster] 1977 Poems. | ||
| [Groenstaar] 1983 Poems. | ||
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