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Magersfontein, O Magersfontein!
Magersfontein, O Magersfontein!
Magersfontein, O Magersfontein!
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Magersfontein, O Magersfontein!

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’n Film- en TV-span kom op Magersfontein aan onder leiding van lord Sudden en lord Seldom om ’n film te maak oor die slag van Magersfontein tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog, op 11 Desember 1899. By dié geleentheid het die Skotse generaal Andrew Wauchope sy lewe verloor. Op tipiese wyse slaag hierdie veelbekroonde skrywer daarin om ’n wye verskeidenheid van uiteenlopende karakters bymekaar te bring en, hoe vergesog die gegewe ook al, alles tot ’n eenheid saam te bind. Nie net die twee lords se filmspan en begeleiers kry lewe voor ons oë nie, maar ook die historiese figure wat verbeeld moet word: Wauchope, De la Rey, Methuen, Cronjé. ’n Ryp en veelduidige satiriese roman wat die leser enduit sal boei.
LanguageAfrikaans
Release dateJul 30, 2013
ISBN9780798160025
Magersfontein, O Magersfontein!
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Etienne Leroux

Etienne Leroux (1922-1989) was een van die belangrikste Sestigers. Hy het baie vernuwing in die Afrikaanse letterkunde meegebring en dikwels groot omstredenheid veroorsaak. Sy werk is verskeie kere bekroon, o.a. twee keer met die Hertzogprys, vir Sewe dae by die Silbersteins en Magersfontein O Magersfontein. ’n Heruitgawe van Die Silberstein-trilogie is in 2006 gepubliseer, en in 2008 Die 18-44-trilogie (wat die romans 18-44, Isis Isis Isis en Na’va insluit).

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    Read this in the English translation by Ninon Roets (Hutchinson, 1983), which is not listed in LibraryThing.It's an excellent satire, full of sharp, angry sarcasm, and some very funny half-page portraits of people: a narcissistic Greek author; a prudish traffic policeman; two Lords, Sudden and Seldom; a poor Boer man -- and about twenty others, very well drawn. Leroux doesn't waste a single line: he's savage and accurate -- a wonderfully good writer. This is satire as it should be written, by someone nearly apoplectic with hatred and impatience, and yet also infused by an irrepressible desire to laugh at everyone. It was banned in South Africa, as documented in the book "the Muzzled Muse: Literature and Censorship in South Africa."Beyond satire, and piercing description, it isn't much, but I will be reading other books by Leroux.

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