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Eugène N. Marais
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Аннотация
Die bekoring van Eugène Marais se eenvoudige dwaalstories is tydloos. Daar kan geen leser wees wat nie betower word deur die eerste woorde van Krom Joggom Konterdans se “lied van die reën” nie: Eers oor die bergtop loer sy skelm, En haar oë is skaam; En sy lag saggies. En van ver af wink sy met die een hand. Marais was een van die eerste Afrikaanse skrywyers wat inheemse verhale in die oorspronklike Boesman-Afrikaanse dialek neergepen het. Sy vier “Dwaalstories” is die eerste keer in 1921 gepubliseer.
Аннотация
"A new edition of this important work which was first published in 1937 and which was the result of Marais’s ten year study of the habits of termites, or white ants.
In his fascinating investigations into the psyche of the ants, their strangely rich inherited memory of instinct, Marais makes challenging assertions about the group soul of the termite colony – the cause and result of the termites’ ceaseless, automatic activity for their community. His extraordinary theory is that the termite colony is, in fact, a separate composite animal at a certain stage of its development. The queen, emanating from her secret chamber the mystical motivating and unifying power for the community, is the brain, while the soldiers, workers and flying termites perform the vital functions of the body, and the remarkable fungoid gardens provide the digestive system.
The Soul of the White Ant is an absorbing and exciting study of an astonishing insect capable of building, grain by grain, an earth structure weighing 11,750 tons.
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In his fascinating investigations into the psyche of the ants, their strangely rich inherited memory of instinct, Marais makes challenging assertions about the group soul of the termite colony – the cause and result of the termites’ ceaseless, automatic activity for their community. His extraordinary theory is that the termite colony is, in fact, a separate composite animal at a certain stage of its development. The queen, emanating from her secret chamber the mystical motivating and unifying power for the community, is the brain, while the soldiers, workers and flying termites perform the vital functions of the body, and the remarkable fungoid gardens provide the digestive system.
The Soul of the White Ant is an absorbing and exciting study of an astonishing insect capable of building, grain by grain, an earth structure weighing 11,750 tons.
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Аннотация
Die enigmatiese digter, verteller en wetenskaplike Eugène N. Marais bly een van die boeiendste en raaiselagtige figure in die Afrikaanse letterkunde. Vir elke leser wat sy pragtige gedig “Winternag” of die weergalose Dwaalstories ken, is hy die skrywer van werke wat jou lank bybly. In hierdie heruitgawe verskyn die skrywer se beste en mees onderhoudende kortverhale, soos uitgesoek deur Merwe Scholtz. Soos Marais se lewe self, wentel die meeste van hierdie verhale om raaisels. Baie van hulle is trouens speurverhale. Hierdie boek is die perfekte geskenk vir lesers van alle ouderdomme.