Author: Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Afrikaans
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A memoir of Breytenbachs seven years in South Africas 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.
The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
Author: Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Afrikaans
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A memoir of Breytenbachs seven years in South Africas 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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Afrikaans
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A memoir of Breytenbachs seven years in South Africas 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.
Mouroir
Author: Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1935744283
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1935744283
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
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.
All One Horse
Author: Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1935744259
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1935744259
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
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.
Memory of Snow and of Dust
Author: Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571144136
Category : South African literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571144136
Category : South African literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
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.
New York Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
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.
Lady One
Author: Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 9780151007622
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
"Please deliver me, Lady, of prattle and cant " "As I bury one hundred years of war and want" Evoking an extraordinary range of settings and images--from "Africa where blood blackens / and tiny desert creatures have to lick / the dew from their flanks to survive" to the havens of exile, and the "snow once again over Paris / this morning sheeting light / under grey blankets"--this searching verse explores love and loss, light and darkness, war and want, and wounds that do not heal. The texture of nostalgic, sometimes bitter memories of childhood in Breytenbach's African homeland is as palpable here as the vigorous exultation of love found amid the ruins of an earlier life. And pervading all the experience rendered is a sense of wonder and awe that "the light lies silvery smooth / in the furrows dug by the farmer / to lead astray the drought / and bring succour to the runner beans, / the maize, tomatoes, melons, peppers, / onions, garlic, potatoes / and love."
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 9780151007622
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
"Please deliver me, Lady, of prattle and cant " "As I bury one hundred years of war and want" Evoking an extraordinary range of settings and images--from "Africa where blood blackens / and tiny desert creatures have to lick / the dew from their flanks to survive" to the havens of exile, and the "snow once again over Paris / this morning sheeting light / under grey blankets"--this searching verse explores love and loss, light and darkness, war and want, and wounds that do not heal. The texture of nostalgic, sometimes bitter memories of childhood in Breytenbach's African homeland is as palpable here as the vigorous exultation of love found amid the ruins of an earlier life. And pervading all the experience rendered is a sense of wonder and awe that "the light lies silvery smooth / in the furrows dug by the farmer / to lead astray the drought / and bring succour to the runner beans, / the maize, tomatoes, melons, peppers, / onions, garlic, potatoes / and love."
Notes from the Middle World
Author: Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608460142
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
An acclaimed South African writer, freedom fighter, and artist illuminates the labyrinth of our political present.
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608460142
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
An acclaimed South African writer, freedom fighter, and artist illuminates the labyrinth of our political present.
Windcatcher
Author: Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151015320
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151015320
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
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.
Waiting
Author: Vincent Crapanzano
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
ISBN: 9780394743264
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Portrays, in narrative self-portraits, the whites of South Africa--English and Afrikaner--who constitute the ruling seventeen percent of the population and analyzes the effects of power on those who wield it
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
ISBN: 9780394743264
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Portrays, in narrative self-portraits, the whites of South Africa--English and Afrikaner--who constitute the ruling seventeen percent of the population and analyzes the effects of power on those who wield it
Return to Paradise
Author: Breyten Breytenbach
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780156001328
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780156001328
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.