Die Verlossing

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Die Verlossing ("the salvation") is an Afrikaans radio drama, based on the Flemish novel by Willem Elsschot (1882 – 1960)[1].


The original text

De Verlossing is a tragicomic novel about the struggle waged between the socialist freethinker Pol van Domburg and a local pasor.

Published by Van Kampen, Amsterdam, in 1921.

Translations and adaptations

The Flemish novel was adapted for radio and translated into Afrikaans by Ken Swart


Broadcast history

19**: First broadcast on the Afrikaans services programme Radioteater, directed by Ken Swart.


Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Elsschot

Copy of the typed text of Die Verlossing, the Afrikaans radio adaptation of Elsschot's novel, donated to the Stellenbosch Drama Department archives by Sas Maree[2] in 1999.


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