“Die hart ’n droë blaar”: Verlies, rou en melancholie in Olga Kirsch se Afrikaanse poësie / “The heart a dry leaf”: Loss, Mourning and Melancholia in Olga Kirsch’s Afrikaans Poetry
Reading Olga Kirsch’s Afrikaans poetry, one is struck by the important role that the experience of loss occupies in her oeuvre. It is evident in the first two volumes of poetry she published while still living in South Africa, as well as in the five volumes she published after emigrating to Israel i...
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| Language: | Afrikaans |
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2014-11-01
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| Series: | Werkwinkel: Journal of Low Countries and South African Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/werk-2014-0011 |