Society & Economicsarticle2026-08-10

“A Bushman Story:” An Opaque Reference to Eugène Marais’s Dwaalstories in Eben Venter’s Decima

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Abstract

Decima, South African bilingual novelist Eben Venter’s most recent and critically acclaimed work, can be described as vintage Venter. As in his other writings, the novel explores questions of the “...

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Institutions: Nelson Mandela University