The Complete Voorkamer Stories

The Complete Voorkamer Stories
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Bosman’s Voorkamer stories first appeared in The Forum in 1950-1951 as a weekly column and were considered by his colleagues as his best work. This volume contains all the Voorkamer stories in the order in which they originally appeared, unabridged and uncensored. In these stories, the local farmers gather in Jurie Steyn’s voorkamer, which doubles as the Drogevlei post office, to share the news of the day, comment on world events and tell stories about pretty girls, ghosts and hypochondriacs.The Complete Voorkamer Stories is now complemented by a «Bushveld Portfolio» by David Goldblatt: 12 previously unpublished photographs taken in the Marico area. The photographs will be interspersed with the text, printed on the half title pages introducing each section of the Voorkamer Stories.

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Herman Charles Bosman. The Complete Voorkamer Stories

Preface

I

The Budget

A Bekkersdal Marathon

Psycho-analysis

Secret Agent

Bull-calf

Local Colour

Ghost Trouble

Oom Tobie’s Sickness

II

News Story

School Concert

Railway Deputation

White Ant

Piet Siener

Potchefstroom Willow

Sea-colonels All

III

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

IV

Part of a Story

Home from finishingschool

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

V

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

VI

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

VII

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

VIII

No Spoon-feeding

Bekkersdal Centenary

Dying Race

In the Old Days

Neighbourly

Marico Man

Homecoming

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Acknowledgments: This volume draws substantially on

the Anniversary Edition of Bosman’s works that Stephen Gray and I

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“In the Ohrigstad Republic,” he declared, and in his eyes there gleamed for a moment a light as from a great past, “in the Republic of Ohrigstad I had the honour to be the Minister of Finance.”

“Honour,” Jurie Steyn repeated, sarcastically, but yet not speaking loud enough for Oupa Bekker to hear. “I wonder how he lost the money in the State’s skatkis. Playing snakes and ladders, I suppose.”

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