Breytenbach, Breyten

Return to paradise by Breyten Breytenbach( Book )
11 editions published between 1993 and 1995 in English and held by 125 libraries worldwide
In 1975, Breyten Breytenbach, a young Afrikaner poet, painter, and ANC activist in exile, made a secret visit to his native South Africa. He was arrested, charged with treason, and imprisoned for seven years. Much has changed since those days: Nelson Mandela has been released, apartheid is on its way out, F. W. de Klerk has set in motion multiracial rule, and Breytenbach, the young rebel, has become one of his country's most respected figures, an insider-outsider with a unique view of South Africa and Africa as a whole. In rich, vivid, evocative prose Breytenbach captures Africa: primitive huts alongside modern airports; the constant migrations of peoples; the ethereal beauty of the land. We travel with him from town to town, from Kwamandlangampisi and Houtenbeck to Goshen and Atlantis. We hear jazz in Capetown and hippopotami oomphing in pools, we see cardboard slums for blacks and exquisite white suburbs - cool houses with luxuriant gardens behind security walls topped with broken glass. We read of principals chased from classrooms by their students, and police confiscating cameras; we pass paw-paw trees, avocado orchards, and the blackened ruins of schools and huts; we learn ancient fables and folk superstitions, and always reflect on politics. This is a poet's experience of Africa, at once unsparing and elegiac

Notes from the middle world by Breyten Breytenbach( Book )
5 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 124 libraries worldwide
"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. Notes from the Middle World is a beautiful and heart-wrenching book. Against the conformity of power, Breytenbach takes readers on a journey through the 'Middle World,' an imagined space beyond borders and exile, toward an embracing vision of justice for the un-citizens post-modernity has dispossessed." -- Back cover

Voice over : a nomadic conversation with Mahmoud Darwish by Breyten Breytenbach( Book )
5 editions published between 2009 and 2014 in English and held by 103 libraries worldwide
Hertzog Prize winner Breyten Breytenbach's imaginative and inspirational elegy to Palestine's greatest poet

Nelson Mandela by Jean Guiloineau( Book )
5 editions published between 1990 and 2010 in French and Italian and held by 103 libraries worldwide
Retrace l'itinéraire du leader sud-africain, depuis sa naissance dans le Transkei en 1918 jusqu'aux élections présidentielles d'avril 1994, une vie tout entière consacrée à lutter pour les siens, aussi bien avec l'African national congress qu'en prison

A season in paradise by Breyten Breytenbach( Book )
14 editions published between 1980 and 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 93 libraries worldwide
A white South African writer opposed to apartheid returns to South Africa after a long exile

Katastrofes by Breyten Breytenbach( Book )
12 editions published between 1964 and 1981 in 3 languages and held by 88 libraries worldwide

('YK') : die vierde bundel van die ongedanste dans by Breyten Breytenbach( Book )
7 editions published between 1983 and 1985 in 3 languages and held by 88 libraries worldwide

Eklips : die derde bundel van die ongedanste dans by Breyten Breytenbach( Book )
8 editions published in 1983 in 3 languages and held by 74 libraries worldwide

Lewendood : kantlynkarteling by 'n digbundel : die eerste bundel van die ongedanste dans by Breyten Breytenbach( Book )
6 editions published between 1984 and 1985 in Afrikaans and held by 72 libraries worldwide

Die huis van die dowe. In die huis van die dowe is die blinde koning by Breyten Breytenbach( Book )
11 editions published between 1967 and 1982 in 3 languages and held by 69 libraries worldwide