Paljas & Die storie van Klara Viljee by Chris Barnard
Paljas & Die storie van Klara Viljee (Afrikaans Film Screenplays, First Edition 1998)
The Afrikaans screenplays behind the acclaimed film Paljas, together with Die storie van Klara Viljee, by Chris Barnard
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Paljas & Die storie van Klara Viljee: Die filmdraaiboeke
- Author: Chris Barnard
- Publisher: Tafelberg, Kaapstad
- Publication Date: 1998
- ISBN-13: 9780624036418
- ISBN-10: 0624036413
- Edition Details: Eerste uitgawe (First Edition), 1998. Seventh printing, 2006. Afrikaans film screenplays.
- Binding: Publisher's illustrated card wrappers, perfect bound, with a colour photograph on the front cover.
- Physical Format: Large softcover (trade paperback format), 179 pages. Two film screenplays in one volume.
- Language: Afrikaans
Official Condition Report
- The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Wraps: The illustrated wrappers, with a clown photograph to the front, are clean and bright with no visible creasing, tears or stains. The blue spine, lettered in red and white, is straight and unbroken. Corners and edges are sharp.
- Interior: The text block appears tight and sound. The pages are clean, white and unmarked, with no foxing or stains.
- The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)
Synopsis & Historical Value
Paljas & Die storie van Klara Viljee: Die filmdraaiboeke gathers two Afrikaans film screenplays by Chris Barnard in a single volume, published by Tafelberg in Cape Town. The first title accompanies the 1997 film Paljas, directed by Katinka Heyns, with Barnard as screenwriter.
Paljas follows a stationmaster's family at a remote railway halt, drawn together when a circus train brings a clown into their lives. The film is set in the rural town of Toorwater. South Africa selected it as its submission for the foreign-language Oscar at the 70th Academy Awards.
The second screenplay, Die storie van Klara Viljee, tells of a woman who has a house built behind a dune to shut out the sea she blames for taking those she loved, and of the townspeople who wonder at her choice. Together the two scripts show the quiet, character-driven storytelling of late-1990s Afrikaans cinema.
This copy is a first edition of 1998 from the seventh printing of 2006. It will appeal to collectors of Afrikaans literature and film history.
Author Profile: Chris Barnard
Chris Barnard (1939-2015) was born in Mataffin, Nelspruit, and died in Cape Town. He wrote Afrikaans novels, youth novels, plays, radio and film scripts and television drama, and is regarded as one of the more important figures of the Sestiger movement.
He debuted in 1961 with the novella Bekende Onrus, which won the CNA prize, and was twice awarded the Hertzog Prize. His other notable works include the novels Mahala (1971), Moerland (1992) and Boendoe (1999), and the youth novel Danda (1974). He was married to the filmmaker Katinka Heyns from 1978.
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