Author : Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A memoir of Breytenbach’s seven years in South Africa’s prisons - two of them in solitary confinement - this book captures the full horror of life in one of the worst penal systems in the world.
Author : Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1935744283
Breytenbach composed this docu-dream during a period of incarceration. Mouroir (mourir: to die + miroir: mirror) is a ship of thought moving with its own hallucinatory logic through a sea of mythic images, protean characters and what the author describes as "landscapes and spaces beyond death, spaces that have always existed and will always exist." An Orphic voyage into memory and mirage, through passages between death and life, darkness and light, oppression and flight, sense and the sensed. Mouroir.
Author : Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1935744259
All One Horse is a marvel-filled journey through Breyten Breytenbach’s kaleidoscopic imagination. The electrifying colors and penetrating images of his paintings converse with his lyrical and satirical dream-fables. These visions and parables emerge from a mélange of cultures and traditions: African and Eastern thought, the spirit world, and the spheres of visual art, philosophy, history and politics. Breytenbach’s watercolors communicate in hieroglyphs, where private conversation embraces myth and dream. These reflections and images – clear and complex at once – are cries for human dignity and justice, are truth disguised as play. With octopus-like grace, Breytenbach pulls together worlds and watches them dance and struggle together; echoes of Afrikaans haunt his English, the fantastic melds into the quotidian, love glimmers beneath rage, the immediate rises to the universal.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 1985-02-04
Category :
ISBN :
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Author : Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 1990
Category : South African literature (English)
ISBN : 9780571144136
A South African novel about three main characters - Meheret, an Ethiopian journalist, Mano, an actor of mixed blood, and Barnum, an exiled writer. Part one describes their interacting lives; part two is set in a near future and tells the story of Mano, now in prison facing the death sentence.
Author : Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780151015320
Spanning the period between 1964 and 2006, a new collection of poetry by the author of Dog Heart and Lady One includes many never-before-published works, including poems written in prison after being jailed in South Africa for his anti-apartheid activism, as well as 1960s works from Paris, and poems of exile from New York in the 1990s.
Author : Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1608460142
An acclaimed South African writer, freedom fighter, and artist illuminates the labyrinth of our political present.
Author : Rian Malan
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 2012-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802193900
An essay collection that offers “a fascinating glimpse of post-apartheid South Africa” from the bestselling author of My Traitor’s Heart (The Sunday Times). The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Rian Malan’s remarkable chronicle of South Africa’s halting steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country. In the title story, Malan investigates the provenance of the world-famous song, recorded by Pete Seeger and REM among many others, which Malan traces back to a Zulu singer named Solomon Linda. He follows the trial of Winnie Mandela; he writes about the last Afrikaner, an old Boer woman who settled on the slopes of Mount Meru; he plunges into President Mbeki’s AIDS policies of the 1990s; and finally he tells the story of the Alcock brothers (sons of Neil and Creina whose heartbreaking story was told in My Traitor’s Heart), two white South Africans raised among the Zulu and fluent in their language and customs. The twenty-one essays collected here, combined with Malan’s sardonic interstitial commentary, offer a brilliantly observed portrait of contemporary South Africa; “a grimly realistic picture of a nation clinging desperately to hope” (The Guardian).
Author : Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,15 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780156001328
The son of an Afrikaner farmer who became an opponent of apartheid returns to South Africa in 1991 as his country heads toward majority rule.
Author : Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher : Human & Rosseau
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The main character and narrator, the nomad Breyten Wordfool, takes the reader on a journey, on many journeys, through his own history and the places where he lives and works and regularly visits: Paris, Spain, Gorée (Senegal), Cape Town, New York, Vietnam: This should be kept in mind as I write Breyten Wordfool's black book of impressions. One must not let go of the memories; maggots and grubs are always needed to transform that which has been lived. Memories and impressions of real events ' being arrested in 1975 at Johannesburg airport for alleged terrorist activities, witnessing the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York in 2001 ' are alternated by surrealistic fantasies, dreamlike sequences, philosophical thoughts, fictions. He reports angrily, lyrically, humorously, daringly on our troubled times. Of Africa he says: ' . . . impossible to rationally get hold of in all its complexity, horror, madness and beauty. No understanding except through invention.' And this is Breyten Breytenbach's achievement, that he can use his inventive powers and imagination to illuminate life in all its horror and beauty. To force us to observe equally with indignation and wonder.
