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