- Title
- Willem Anker’s Red Dog, Cormac McCarthy, and the Enigma of Coenraad de Buys
- Creator
- Cornwell, Gareth D N
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458217
- Identifier
- vital:75724
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-iseaeng_v48_n2_a1
- Description
- Willem Anker has been accused of stealing from Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1985) in his novel Red Dog (2018), the English translation of his award-winning Buys (2014). I defend Anker on the charge of plagiarism, while conceding that his novel could not have been the book that it is without the precedent of Blood Meridian. I go on to voice other reservations about Red Dog via discussion, inter alia, of Anker’s characterisation of Coenraad Buys and the rendering in English of his Afrikaans original. I conclude that the historical Coenraad Buys appears intractable to novelistic treatment, and that Anker signals his awareness of this while at the same time making a valiant attempt to bring the character to life.
- Format
- 16 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- English in Africa, Cornwell, G., 2021. Willem Anker’s Red Dog, Cormac McCarthy, and the Enigma of Coenraad de Buys. English in Africa, 48(2), pp.7-22, English in Africa volume 48 number 2 7 22 2021 0376-8902
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- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the English in Africa Statement (https://www.ru.ac.za/isea/publications/journals/englishinafrica/)
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