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Notes from the Middle World
Breyten Breytenbach
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Description for Notes from the Middle World
Paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 302.
In dialogue with the dead and living - Nelson Mandela, Mahmoud Darwish, Barack Obama - internationally distinguished South African artist and writer Breyten Breytenbach's new collection of essays traces the collisions between utopia and disaster, political traumas and the renewal of hope.
In dialogue with the dead and living - Nelson Mandela, Mahmoud Darwish, Barack Obama - internationally distinguished South African artist and writer Breyten Breytenbach's new collection of essays traces the collisions between utopia and disaster, political traumas and the renewal of hope.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Haymarket Books United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781931859912
SKU
V9781931859912
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About Breyten Breytenbach
A native of South Africa, Breyten Breytenbach is a distinguished painter, activist and prolific writer. He has authored numerous novels, short story compilations, essays and dramatic works. From 1975- 1982, he was a political prisoner serving two terms of solitary confinement in South African prisons. Today Professor Breytenbach is a Global Distinguished Professor of creative writing at New York University. ... Read more
Reviews for Notes from the Middle World
Praise for Breytenbach's Return to Paradise: "This wonderful book is written with a wild heart and an unrelenting eye, and is fueled by the sort of rage that produces great literature."
The Washington Post "Protean, funny, bitchy, beautifully written and searingly bleak . . . As in all of Mr. Breytenbach's writing, the lyrical pleasures here are intense."
The New ... Read more
The Washington Post "Protean, funny, bitchy, beautifully written and searingly bleak . . . As in all of Mr. Breytenbach's writing, the lyrical pleasures here are intense."
The New ... Read more