The important matter that needs to be discussed before going into the novel itself is the matter of the ease with which South Africa and South Africa’s history lends itself to fables and proverbs in the hands of South African writers. The fact is that writing film scripts has been part of Damon Galgut’s expertise from the beginning of his writing career. Galgut himself points out examples of places in the novel where the dialogue is influenced by the film script writing format.
This is mentioned because so much is made of the fact that Damon Galgut took on a film script job in-between the beginning and finishing of the writing of The Promise and hence the fact that the novel reads very much like a film script. It is to be noted that Damon Galgut wrote the film script. It was the film adaptation of it that I saw and liked. The Quarry (2005, Grove Paperback) was my first encounter with Damon Galgut. This is the ninth novel of Damon Galgut, counting the first novel or not. Let us go to the reason A Sinless Season is mentioned. Other than the title of that novel, nothing else is ever mentioned. As usual for such early displays of genius, nobody, least of all the writer, wants to talk of it today.
Damon Galgut published his first novel when he was 18 years of age.
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