Memory Of Birds In Time Of Revolution: Essays - Couverture rigide

Breytenbach, Breyten

 
9780151001682: Memory Of Birds In Time Of Revolution: Essays
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0151001685 ISBN 13 : 9780151001682
Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1996

Synopsis

The Memory of Birds in Time Revolutions is a collection of searching new essays by the acclaimed author of Returen to Paradise and True Confessions of an Albion Terrorist. Essaying his homeland, Africa, at the end of the twentieth century, Breyten Breytenbach offers penetrating insights on a variety of topics: the release of Nelson Mandela from prison ("Nelson Mandela is Free"); the early days of Mandela's presidency, and its failures (the controversial "Open Letter to Nelson Mandela"); the geography of the writer's imagination ("Tortoise Steps"); death as the mother of beauty ("Cadavre Exquis"); the true meaning of reconciliation and reform after apartheid ("Fragments from a Growing Awareness of Unfinished Truths"); and much more.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The Memory of Birds in Time Revolutions is a collection of searching new essays by the acclaimed author of Returen to Paradise and True Confessions of an Albion Terrorist. Essaying his homeland, Africa, at the end of the twentieth century, Breyten Breytenbach offers penetrating insights on a variety of topics: the release of Nelson Mandela from prison ("Nelson Mandela is Free"); the early days of Mandela's presidency, and its failures (the controversial "Open Letter to Nelson Mandela"); the geography of the writer's imagination ("Tortoise Steps"); death as the mother of beauty ("Cadavre Exquis"); the true meaning of reconciliation and reform after apartheid ("Fragments from a Growing Awareness of Unfinished Truths"); and much more.

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Éditeur
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0151001685
ISBN 13 
9780151001682
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
184
Coordonnées du fabricant
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