STANDPUNTE

Issues 27 (February 1960), 28, 30 to 40/41, 43 to 46 ( April 1963) 16 books in total

Card covers, each issue about 60 pages. Some b/w artwork and photographs.
Stamped on covers with “Here 17 leeskamer” and some minor notes on important content on some covers and indices. Good condition for age.

Standpunte was an Afrikaans literary quarterly founded in 1945 to provide a serious forum for literary criticism, debate, and cultural discussion. The founding editors were N.P. van Wyk Louw, W.E.G. Louw, and H.A. Mulder, and later Coenie Rudolph edited it from 1966 to 1973.
Other important contributors included D.J. Opperman, Rob Antonissen, A.P. Grové, and S.V. Petersen. Its purpose was not general news but high-level literary engagement: poems, criticism, essays, and argument about the role of literature in society. In the 1960s, that made it one of the key spaces for serious Afrikaans literary thought.

It is especially important for the study of Afrikaans literature because it helped shape literary standards and preserved the major debates of the period.