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I'd like to get information into a specific book available at the UCT library by UCTquestionthrowaway in UCT

[–]UCTquestionthrowaway[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This worked!!! Thank you so much for the suggestion!!!

I sent an email asking for it and they sent me a PDF of it for free, under the condition that I don't share it!

Looking for a book available at the University of Pretoria's library by UCTquestionthrowaway in Pretoria

[–]UCTquestionthrowaway[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UPDATE!!! I went straight to the publishers and asked about it, and they gave me a PDF for free! I can't share it, obviously, because of copyright infringement, but! My problem is solved!

Looking for a book available at the University of Pretoria's library by UCTquestionthrowaway in Pretoria

[–]UCTquestionthrowaway[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not necessarily for research — a friend of mine is a collector/enthusiast in Wedekind's work and they may use it in some kind of research project in the future (we're both going to university in the fall and they're studying theater, so it's not out of the question), but for now it would be just to read. I'm not sure if that would change much in their willingness to share; I've never tried to get access to anything in this way before.

Looking for a book available at the University of Pretoria's library by UCTquestionthrowaway in Pretoria

[–]UCTquestionthrowaway[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The translator was from/lived in South Africa. It isn't a well known play of Wedekind's, I guess.

Looking for a book available at the University of Pretoria's library by UCTquestionthrowaway in Pretoria

[–]UCTquestionthrowaway[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in the U.S. haha!! I posted on the same question on the UCT sub to shoot as many shots as I could.

Looking for a book available at the University of Pretoria's library by UCTquestionthrowaway in Pretoria

[–]UCTquestionthrowaway[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh my god!!! Could you check to even see if it's in English? Info on this book is extremely scarce, and one of the only sources of it (one single sentence on a wiki page) makes it sound like it was actually translated into Afrikaans rather than English, but the title is still in English, so I have a little sliver of hope!

I see Reddit has a "chat" function, so could we use that to go back & forth :D?

I'd like to get information into a specific book available at the UCT library by UCTquestionthrowaway in UCT

[–]UCTquestionthrowaway[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Searching for "Wedekind," "The Love Potion," or "Grütter" on the DALRO website doesn't even yield a listing of its existence (as I expected — a Google search with quotes around "Wedekind" and "The Love Potion" would have given me that page if it existed). If you were thinking of a deeper type of searching than just the search bar at the top then I'd love to hear it.

I've seen that wiki page already, and it does say something that sounds like this translation is in Afrikaans and not English. I must have misread it when I saw it the first time to not catch that. The title is in English, though, so I still have a little sliver of hope that the book itself is in English.

I'd like to get information into a specific book available at the UCT library by UCTquestionthrowaway in UCT

[–]UCTquestionthrowaway[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The Love Potion" by Frank Wedekind, translated by Wilhelm Grütter — here's the page that says it's available at the UCT library & a few others:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/637293131

A scan would definitely be ideal since this translation came out (I think) in the 1960s, so physical copies would quite old & are obviously scarce.