The folly
By: Ivan Vladislavić
Series: Africasouth new writing; Africasouth new writing
Publisher: D. Philip
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Claremont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780864862372
Subjects: South African fiction (English); General
Notes: A novel.
Table of contents: title: One quiet evening, somewhere in the old South Africa, the settled existence of Mr and Mrs Malgas is disrupted by the arrival on the plot next door of a stranger with a Plan, in which his neighbours are bound to play a part. As the old order around them convulses at a discreet distance, Nieuwenhuizen hatches a scheme for creating something new. Propped up and undermined by the equivocal language in which they are cast, and feeling the ground shifting beneath them, this unlikely trio doggedly explore the mechanisms of construction and destruction.