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Krige, Uys : The Way Out (Italian Intermezzo)

(Cape Town: Unie-Volkspers, 1946)

8vo; original pale blue cloth, lettered in red on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. 384. Trace of sunning to edges of boards; front endsheet adhering; earlier owner's name signed to front free endpaper verso; some rippling to prelims.; edges and outermost leaves somewhat foxed, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Good condition. "If I had been more interested in the style of this book than in its content I would have written it in my own language - Afrikaans. But this is a book which I had on my conscience - on my conscience as a human being and not as a literary craftsman - and which, I felt strongly, should be written in English so that documentary evidence as to exactly what happened in Italy after the 8th September, 1943, should be accessible to the peoples of the two countries at present most concerned with Italy - namely, the British Commonwealth and America. This is not an imaginative work. I have created no sympathetic character sooner or later to polish him off in order to obtain a major effect. I have not harmonised or orchestrated my incidents and situations. I have struck rigidly to the facts. I have set down, as faithfully as I could, just what happened to me."

KRIGE, Uys : The Way Out (Italian Intermezzo)

Unie Volkspers, 1946

A fine copy in a vg+ d.w., closed tear largely along top rear hinge, internal tape stains (no showthrough), light wear to extremities. SIGNED by author on fep.

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