Intertekstualiteit en die Bose in Kroniek van Perdepoort (Anna M. Louw)
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| Field | Value | |
| Title | Intertekstualiteit en die Bose in Kroniek van Perdepoort (Anna M. Louw) | |
| Creator | Linde, E. Steenberg, D. H. | |
| Description | In Anna M. Louw’s novel Kroniek van Perdepoort the primal conflict between good and evil is an important constituent element. Well-known authors in world literature have been fascinated by this problem, and it is an enriching experience to bring together allusions and to investigate points of contact with authors such as Feodor Dostoyevsky, Thomas Mann. William Faulkner and Patrick White. In Kroniek van Perdepoort there is a meeting between Klaas Kamer and the devil. Similarities between this meeting and similar meetings in Dr Faustus (Thomas Mann) and The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky) are pointed out.Subsequently the portrayal of sin in Kroniek van Perdepoort is compared with Faulkner’s novels The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!, in which a similar theme is represented.Patrick White is also an author of religious literature to whom Anna M. Louw is attracted by her own admission. His novels. The solid Mandala and Riders in the Chariot are studied, and similarities with Kroniek van Perdepoort indicated. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 1986-05-07 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/lit.v7i2.879 | |
| Source | Literator; Vol 7, No 2 (1986); 20-38 Literator; Vol 7, No 2 (1986); 20-38 2219-8237 0258-2279 | |
| Language | eng | |
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