‘Embodying Space’: The Search for a Nurturing Environment in Marlene van Niekerk’s <i>Triomf, Agaat and Memorandum</i>

Abstract

Marlene van Niekerk’s novels have been the subject of much lively critical discussion in the South African literary community. She has been praised for
– among other features – her inventive use of the Afrikaans language, disregard for taboos and the breaching of stylistic and literary boundaries.