Transformations: Essays 9780241405314

Transformations: Essays 9780241405314What does Playboy have to do with Nabokovs infamous novel Lolita and his obsession with a butterfly? Why is Shrien Dewani looking so cheap? And what can Ovids Metamorphosis show us about contemporary South African society? Imraan Coovadias Transformations is a collection of short pieces in the tradition of the essayist: exciting, probing, intelligent and readable. The essays are on writing, politics and culture from a South African perspective.

Ten-year-old Danny knows he's going somewhere

If the Old West is so well known

a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle on 10 January 1929

she's still passing this time

A work of variations and possibilities

later killed

Follow this beautiful tale

are asking the same questions:

something even more horrifying comes to light

From the author whose books inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small

Magic as powerful as any possessed by the King or by Good Magician Humfrey--or even by the Evil Magician Trent

The exactions of El Santero continue