Research Catalog

Title

The complete Voorkamer stories / Herman Charles Bosman ; edited by Craig Mackenzie ; with a Bushveld portfolio by David Goldblatt.

Author

Bosman, Herman Charles, 1905-1951.

Publication

Kaapstad : Human & Rosseau, 2011.

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Additional Authors

• MacKenzie, Craig, 1960-
• Goldblatt, David.

Description

464 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

'For the first time in one volume, the complete sequence of Bosman's "In die Voorkamer" sketches. Published to a weekly deadline over 1950 - 51 as hilarious satires of the issues of the day ... These deft conversation pieces, set in Jurie Steyn's backveld Marico post office, raise the art of idle talk to a level unequalled in South African humour.'--Back cover.

Subject

• Short stories, South African (English)
• Manners and customs
• South Africa > Social life and customs > Fiction
• South Africa

Genre/Form

Fiction.

Contents

Preface -- The budget -- A Bekkersdal marathon -- Psycho-analysis -- Secret agent -- Bull-calf -- Local colour -- Ghost trouble -- Oom Tobie's sickness -- News story -- School concert -- Railway deputation -- White ant -- Piet Siener -- Potchefstroom willow -- Sea-colonels all -- Idle talk -- Birth certificate -- Play within a play -- Springtime in Marico -- The coffee that tasted like tar -- Stars in their courses -- Green-eyed monster -- Casual conversation -- The call of the road -- Lath and plaster -- Do professors smoke dagga? -- Art criticism -- Part of a story -- Home from finishing-school -- Singular events -- Young man in love -- Dreams of rain -- Ill-informed criticism -- Toys in the shop window -- At this time of year -- New-year glad rags -- Go-slow strike -- Black magic -- Laugh, clown, laugh -- Anxious to hear -- Day of wrath -- Language of flowers -- Divinity student -- Sleepy afternoon -- Alarm clock -- Circumstantial evidence -- Literary giants -- Alcoholic remorse -- The terror of the Molopo -- Border bad man -- Kith and kin -- Rolled gold -- Home town -- Monument to a hero -- Coffin in the loft -- Detective story -- Wonder woman of Windhoek -- The recluse -- The ugly tale of a pretty widow -- Eavesdropper -- Failing sight -- Sixes and sevens -- Mental trouble -- Man to man -- Feat of memory -- Easy circumstances -- Weather prophet -- Lost city -- Mother-in-law -- Five-pound notes -- Forbidden country -- At ease on the dung heap -- No spoon-feeding -- Bekkersdal centenary -- Dying race -- In the old days -- Neighbourly -- Marico man -- Homecoming.

ISBN

• 9780798152983
• 0798152982
• 9780978155953 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2011412187

OCLC

• ocn756612199
• 756612199
• SCSB-5859819

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries