controversial authors, Dambudzo Marechera, using mainly psychoanalytic tools of inquiry. The above works of fiction have been carefully chosen to sample the writer's skills and concerns as a poet, playwright and novelist extraordinaire. These works, which were written between 1978 and 1984, give a fair representation of the said author's vast and varied skills whose works according to one critic 'read a little like a clever dissertation for a PhD' (cited in Veit-Wild, 1992:17) yet he never completed a first degree!

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