Verhaal As Heimwee Na die Droom van Geborgenheid‪.‬

Summary In de Vries's volume of short stories, Tot verhaal kom (2003), narration as means of understanding is investigated. In spite of the "narratavistic turn" in the humanities, de Vries takes a critical stance towards the possibilities of narration to help us to understand the world and ourselves. The closure offered by narratives might assist us to find meaning in our world but in all the short stories in this volume there is a consciousness that the closure offered by the stories is not enough. All perceptions, all emotions and experiences, can simply not be narrated. In every