Die blote storie 2 by Hennie Aucamp

Die blote storie 2 (First Edition Afrikaans Writer's Workbook, 1994)

Hennie Aucamp's Practical Workbook for Short-Story Writers, Sequel to the 1986 Die blote storie

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Die blote storie 2: 'n Werkboek vir kortverhaalskrywers
• Author: Hennie Aucamp
• Publisher: Tafelberg, Kaapstad
• Publication Date: 1994
• ISBN-13: 9780624032786
• ISBN-10: 0624032787
• Edition Details: Eerste uitgawe (First Edition), 1994.
• Binding: Publisher's printed card covers (large softcover), black with gold and white lettering.
• Physical Format: Large softcover (trade paperback) format, 265 pages.
• Language: Afrikaans

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good (VG)
• Exterior / Wraps: Black printed covers with gold and white lettering, and a yellow-and-black portrait illustration to the front. Light rubbing at the spine head and a small bump or scuff at the top corner of the front cover. The spine is straight and the binding sound. A yellow discount price sticker (WAS / NOW R 12.00) is affixed to the lower back cover.
• Interior: The text block is tight and the pages are cream and evenly toned. The fore-edge is clean. There is a diagonal crease or fold to the corner of one leaf. No markings seen.
• The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)

Synopsis & Historical Value

Die blote storie 2: 'n Werkboek vir kortverhaalskrywers (roughly, 'The Bare Story 2: A Workbook for Short-Story Writers') was published by Tafelberg in Cape Town in 1994. It follows Hennie Aucamp's 1986 Die blote storie and continues the mentor's side of the craft of writing.

The book works through questions every aspiring storyteller meets: dialogue, the difference between the writer and the describer, editing one's own work, the storyteller's voice, the line between essay and story, and the unfinished story. Aucamp draws his examples from both Afrikaans and world literature and sets writing exercises throughout.

Appearing in the year Aucamp retired as head of the Afrikaans department at Stellenbosch, the volume carries his long teaching experience into print. It has been cited in academic work on the teaching of creative writing, and it is a useful companion piece for collectors of Aucamp and of Afrikaans literary history.

Author Profile: Hennie Aucamp

Hennie Aucamp (1934–2014) was an Afrikaans poet, short-story writer, cabaretist and academic, born in Dordrecht in the Eastern Cape. He taught Afrikaans at Stellenbosch from 1964 and headed the Afrikaans department from 1983 until his retirement in 1994.

His first short-story collection, Die hartseerwals (1965), established him as a leading Afrikaans prose writer, and his honours include the 1970 Tafelbergprys and the 1974 W.A. Hofmeyr Prize. Other notable works include Die blote storie (1986) and Gekaapte tyd (1996); House Visits, translated by Ian Ferguson, offers a selection in English.