The poetry of Eugene Marais is atmospheric, brilliant. Pity it is more difficult to access than his books, if you don't speak Afrikaans. The one about Tebes in the silent desert is haunting, wonderful...
What a superb adaption of Eugene Marais's story. I recently visited the John Ruskin museum in the village of Coniston and noted that Donald Campbells boat, The Bluebird is now sitting, restored in pride of place there, and was interested to learn that the Bluebird name had a lineage through multiple vehicles and boats arising from Malcolm Campbell's admiration of Maurice Maeterlinck's play The Blue Bird. It is a good play of course, and Maurice Maeterlinck was a polymath, but he did steal Marais's thesis and, for that, his name must still be tainted by the accusation of plagiarism.
The Belgian Nobel Prize-winning writer Maurice Maeterlinck should be denounced. If the plagiarism he did, he played the game at all his advantages, the fame, the translation of the language, and a South African naturalist and writer whom he had an eye for but so distancing. It's all framed his sense of invulnerability to carried out the swift act. What a coward taking no risk even stealing. Why couldn't he simply recommended Mr.Eugène Marais.s work to the world to showed his appreciation and made his fame a well done. The choice he had been made, the man he had been made. If it's the case. Thanks to Ms.Melissa Murray, Mr. Shaun Evans and BBC Radio Drama,also the RUclips.
Whilst plagiarism was acknowledged, it seems that Materlinck survived it with little consequence. Poor Eugene suffered a great deal more. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Maeterlinck
If the sound track music for this is available separately, without the story and credits over it, I am as they say, all ears! Good story indeed; but I can't be the only one to think the music itself was also amazing.
Thank you very much for posting this. I've enjoyed listening to it, and learnt a lot too. Shaun did so well with the Africaans accent.
The poetry of Eugene Marais is atmospheric, brilliant. Pity it is more difficult to access than his books, if you don't speak Afrikaans. The one about Tebes in the silent desert is haunting, wonderful...
What a superb adaption of Eugene Marais's story. I recently visited the John Ruskin museum in the village of Coniston and noted that Donald Campbells boat, The Bluebird is now sitting, restored in pride of place there, and was interested to learn that the Bluebird name had a lineage through multiple vehicles and boats arising from Malcolm Campbell's admiration of Maurice Maeterlinck's play The Blue Bird. It is a good play of course, and Maurice Maeterlinck was a polymath, but he did steal Marais's thesis and, for that, his name must still be tainted by the accusation of plagiarism.
The Belgian Nobel Prize-winning writer Maurice Maeterlinck should be denounced. If the plagiarism he did, he played the game at all his advantages, the fame, the translation of the language, and a South African naturalist and writer whom he had an eye for but so distancing. It's all framed his sense of invulnerability to carried out the swift act. What a coward taking no risk even stealing.
Why couldn't he simply recommended Mr.Eugène Marais.s work to the world to showed his appreciation and made his fame a well done.
The choice he had been made, the man he had been made.
If it's the case.
Thanks to Ms.Melissa Murray, Mr. Shaun Evans and BBC Radio Drama,also the RUclips.
Whilst plagiarism was acknowledged, it seems that Materlinck survived it with little consequence. Poor Eugene suffered a great deal more. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Maeterlinck
If the sound track music for this is available separately, without the story and credits over it, I am as they say, all ears! Good story indeed; but I can't be the only one to think the music itself was also amazing.
very goood intresting i learnt alot,,,
Ashamed to be Belgian……