My short story, Populierwoud, appears in this collection.
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Saamgestel deur Peter van Noord en Karin Eloff.
Die woordeboek sê die erotiek gaan oor al die verskynsels en gevoelens van “sinlike” liefde, en oor die kuns “om lief te hê”.
Die erotiek was nog altyd met ons en sal altyd met ons wees – nie net in die slaapkamer nie, maar ook in vele mooi dinge in die wêreld om ons: ’n Rodin-beeldhouwerk, ’n Picasso-skildery, ’n Dvorák-simfonie, ’n Zeferelli-rolprent, ’n Ferrari-ontwerp of Alexander McQueen-tabberd…
Maar erotiek het nie altyd met die liefde te make nie. Soms is dit sinloos, sedeloos, waansinnig en onsinnig … Erotiek hoef nie noodwendig sag, pienk en romanties te wees nie.
In Afrikaans het ons al bundels gehad wat dié onderwerp aanraak – dink maar aan Lyfspel/Body Play (1994), Rachelle Greeff se versameling erotiese verhale deur vroue; Johann de Lange en Antjie Krog se bundel Die dye trek die dye aan (1998), en meer onlangs was daar Maanvrug en Slavin deur Annelise.
Maar die tyd is ryp vir ’n vars blik op die erotiek in Afrikaans. Tafelberg het die omvangrykste bundel oor die erotiek bedink: Bloots bevat verhale van ou hande en nuwe stemme; digters, joernaliste, skrywers, sangers, sakemense, sosiale vlinders, sekskatjies, tuiniers, politici, komediante, kosmense, kerkmense, kunstenaars, kommentators, ekonome, en regisseurs. Daar’s ma’s en pa’s, oumas en oupas, weduwees en wewenaars, ougetroudes, geskeides, alleenlopers. Van hulle is bekend, ander minder bekend.
Bloots is lyfliteratuur uit die boonste rakke.
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Compiled by Peter van Noord and Karin Eloff.
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The dictionary says that eroticism is about all the phenomena and feelings of “sensual” love, and about the art “of loving”.
Eroticism has always been with us and will always be with us – not only in the bedroom, but also in many beautiful things in the world around us: a Rodin sculpture, a Picasso painting, a Dvorák symphony, a Zeffirelli film, a Ferrari design or an Alexander McQueen dress…
But eroticism does not always have to do with love. Sometimes it is meaningless, immoral, insane and absurd… Eroticism does not necessarily have to be soft, pink and romantic. In Afrikaans we have already had collections that touch on this topic – one only has to think of Lyfspel/Body Play(1994), Rachelle Greeff’s collection of erotic stories by women; Johann de Lange and Antjie Krog’s collection Die dye trek die dye aan (1998), and more recently there was Maanvrug and Slavin by Annelise.
But the time is ripe for a fresh look at eroticism in Afrikaans. Tafelberg Publishers has come up with the most comprehensive collection dealing with eroticism: Bloots contains stories by old hands and new voices; poets, journalists, writers, singers, businesspeople, social butterflies, sex kittens, gardeners, politicians, comedians, food people, church people, artists, commentators, economists, and directors. There are mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, widows and widowers, people who have been married for many years, people who are divorced, loners. Some of them are well known, others less so.
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Bloots offers the reader body literature of the highest quality.