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The Swan Whisperer

The Cahier Series 25

ISBN-13: 9781909631106

Author(s): Marlene van Niekerk

Subjects: FA, FBA

Publisher: Sylph Editions

Publisher Imprint: Sylph Editions

Publication Date: 15-10-2012

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£14.00
The Swan Whisperer

About the book

Through gathered letters and recordings, Van Niekerk recounts Olwagen s discovery of a vagrant who, without uttering anything intelligible, summons swans from Amsterdam s canals. The Swan Whisperer probes at the relationship between language and living, translation and writing, stories and truth. From an obsession with words to an obsession with dismantling them, Van Niekerk explores what stirs humans to translate. A story of doubles, cadence and swan whisperings, this cahier delves into the playfulness of sound in the Afrikaans language, and the necessity for listening in all translation.