Writing for Salvation

Author: David Robbins

Forty years after coming of age in South Africa in the 1960s, the author unearths a forgotten manuscript written at that time.  Through rereading this early work, he revisits the political and religious falsehoods that had characterised the context of his genesis as a writer, particularly as revealed by the fictional characters that he then created.

Two women have been damaged by the realities of the time, one crushed by the withering world of Afrikaner urbanisaion, the other by the devastating impact of racially defined morality.  They bring tragedy and greater maturity to the central character, a young visual artists who falls in love with both these shattered individuals.  Tragic yet liberating, the multi-pronged narrative that unfolds is as innovative in style and concept as it is illuminating of emotional and intellectual imprisonment.  The conclusion are undeniably triumphant, however, suggestive as they are of the exhilaration of living life against a generally repressive and delusive stream.

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