Breyten Breytenbach, Author . Harcourt $23 (96p) ISBN 978-0-15-100762-2
During the 1970s and '80s, Breytenbach's work in Afrikaans placed him among South Africa's best-known poets; his imprisonment by the apartheid regime (recounted in his 1985 memoir, The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist) helped make
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Breyten Breytenbach, Author . Archipelago $20 (115p) ISBN 978-0-9793330-7-1
South African poet Breytenbach (True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
) offers a dreamy take on the artistic impulse in these 27 short prose fictions. Many are slyly couched as fables; each has a facing page watercolor in Breytenbach’s own...
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Breyten Breytenbach, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $22.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-374-20766-3
Breytenbach is a white Afrikaaner poet/novelist/essayist and activist against apartheid, who was imprisoned by the government for seven years and memorialized his experi ences in The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist. Theatrical images of...
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Breyten Breytenbach, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-15-177086-1
In lush, poetic, sometimes brutal imagery, Afrikaner painter, poet and anti-apartheid activist Breytenbach ( A Season in Paradise , etc.) describes the travail of his country riven by racial conflict. He recounts his seven-year imprisonment for...
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Breyten Breytenbach, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22 (184p) ISBN 978-0-15-100168-2
This miscellany of recent essays and lectures by Afrikaner renegade Breytenbach does not have the sustained brilliance of such soul-and nation-searching memoirs as Return to Paradise, but his musings about art and politics express doubt,...
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Breyten Breytenbach, Author, Breyten Breytenbach, Preface by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $18.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-15-600132-8
Afrikaner and apartheid activist Breytenbach examines South Africa's political and social turmoil with a careful, critical eye. (Sept.)
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Breyten Breytenbach, Author, Drenka Willen, Editor Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22 (192p) ISBN 978-0-15-100458-4
If any South African writer's fragmentary meditations are worth reading, those by Breytenbach--the essayist (The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution, etc.), poet, painter and ex-revolutionary who is still a renegade Afrikaner--are in the front...
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