To a Dubious Salvation: A Trilogy of Fantastical Novels

by Etienne Leroux

Opening with a bizarre social gathering at a lush country estate (Seven Days at the Silbersteins), continuing in the second volume as a political thriller-extraordinary (One for the Devil), and ending with a disturbing hunt for a sex murderer (The Third Eye), To a Dubious Salvation is an epic of the imagination where politics, philosophy and religion are subverted by powerful erotic forces.

Genres: South Africa, Africa, Fiction

472 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

Etienne Leroux was an influential Afrikaans author and a key member of the South African Sestigers literary movement. His full name is Stephanus Petrus Daniël le Roux, son of S.P. Le Roux, a South African Minister of Agriculture.

His works gained critical acclaim and were translated into many languages.

Reviews

[Snipkin]

A wonderful, dreamy, surreal, read. Not sure I'd have the patience for it now, but I loved it when I was younger. It's VERY DIFFERENT - not your average read - and it gets five stars for that. Maybe a little Kafka-esque, and that's my sort of book.

[Michael Vawser]

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