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Terugvoering deur Hennie Aucamp
Tweede verslag
Slotkommentaar oor al vyf herskrewe verhale
Ons versameling deur Merle Grace
Lig deur Jaco Jacobs
Kranskop deur François Loots
Gisteraand deur Susan Samuel
Die roostuin deur Hanni van den Heever
Vroeër of later moet n skrywer sy eie arbiter word; self besluit wat weggelaat of ingevoeg moet word om van sy teks n sterker mededeling te maak. n Skrywer kan maklik te afhanklik raak van buitemenings, en op dié manier onduidelik bly omtrent sy koers en die moontlikhede en begrensinge van sy talent.
Maar solank n skrywer nog probleme het met taalhantering, met doodgewone grammatikale en idiomatiese kwessies, is hy nog nie gereed om sy paadjie selfstandig te bewandel nie. Eers as hy sy medium spontaan en oortuigend hanteer, kan hy hom amptelik as skrywer beskou.
boontoe
Dié verhaal is toegewyd hersien, amper te drasties, want die slot is nou bra kripties. Iets in die dialoog van die man wat die kind raakgery het, moet suggereer dat sy doof is. Iets soos: Ek toet en toet maar sy staan net daar ...
Die verkleinwoord van skilpad moet wees: skilpadjie.
boontoe
Lig deur Jaco Jacobs
Ook dié verhaal het gebaat by hersiening en stilering, en juis om dié rede val n oorblywende teleskopering as n steurnis op:
Oumies? hou die petroljoggie die sleutel deur die venster na Agnes uit.
Ek moet beken dat dié verhaal my steeds nie oortuig nie. Dis net te broos om sy lading Afrika-mistiek te dra.
boontoe
Kranskop deur François Loots
Dié verhaal het daadwerklik gebaat by hersiening. Die leser lees hom nie meer so vas teen lomp en foutiewe konstruksies nie, maar hier en daar is daar nog n jong jakkalsie wat die wingerd verniel. Dié sin, byvoorbeeld:
Is ek in n verhouding, jaag ek alleenlopers hulle vryheid na; is ek enkeling, wil ek elke tweede vriend n minnaar maak, en juis dié moeras van onbetrokke betrokkenheid wil ek n paar dae ontsnap.
Die sin is belangrik, want dit wil iets oorsein omtrent die ek se emosionele onbestendigheid. Stroping en verstewiging is nodig. Ek stel só iets voor:
Is ek in n verhouding, jaag ek alleenlopers na; is ek enkeling, wil ek van elke tweede vriend n minnaar maak; en dis juis aan dié moeras van onbetrokke betrokkenheid dat ek n paar dae wil ontsnap.
n Teleskopering soos Kan ek maar sit? gee ek haar die koeldrank ... ens. is seker n glips, maar dit irriteer nietemin.
O. Henry se raad aan skrywers i.v.m. die skryf van n verhaal was: Let it march. Bloot al grammatikale slordighede kan die gang van n verhaal belemmer, want die leser moet nou begin ontsyfer, en dit ondermyn sy geloof in die betrokke verhaal.
Die motief van n gevangene op vrye voet, oortuig my nog steeds nie; dit het iets van n vals raaisel. Hier is egter n geval van n greep wat die skrywer kennelik na aan die hart lê, en dis op slot van sake sý verhaal.
boontoe
Dié verhaal het baie gebaat by versobering.
Hier en daar kan nog afgestem word, soos waar die ek se kop met n balletjie vergelyk word; tog n bal, sou ek sê.
In n sin soos ... en soos een of ander addiction is dit too hard to contemplate anything else klink dié mengeltaal idiomaties onsuiwer, en lees jy jou dus teen taal vas, ten koste van die verhaal.
Ook dink ek dat die sinsverbrokkeling in die slotparagraaf moet toeneem. Die twee slotsinne klink skielik te beredeneerd, te nugter; hef die voorafgaande verbrokkelings op.
boontoe
Die roostuin deur Hannie van den Heever
Dié verhaal het gebaat by stilistiese suiwering; sy kwetsbaarheid lê myns insiens by sy slot. Dis in die slot dat al die emosionele en simboliese moontlikhede van rose en n roostuin saamgetrek moet word, en tog gebeur dit nie op artistiek bevredigende wyse nie.
Een probleem is dat mev. Viljee se rol in die verhaal ambivalent bly. Sy het tog werklik begrip vir n gevoelige kind, maar teen die einde word sy meewarig genoem. En syself is kennelik gevoelig, want sy probeer die weeskind met skoonheid troos.
Woorde kan toonversteurders wees, en toonversteuring binne die belangrikste fase van n verhaal kan fataal wees. Dit kan wees dat die verteller die terugskouende perspektief op n sleutelgebeure wil beklemtoon met woorde soos implikasie en geïntoneer, maar die slot van Die roostuin verwerp asof vanself alle abstraksies.
Die toneel in die tuin moet dringend, werklik en onmiddellik voel, een en al sintuiglikheid. As die name van die rose nie genoem word nie, moet minstens hul kleure en geure genoem word. Dan eers sal artistiek gedemonstreer word dat skoonheid kan troos na n groot verlies.
boontoe
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