The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution: Essays

1st Edition1st edition; minor wear/scuffing to dust jacket; boards are sharp on edges; no internal markings. Essays. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

1st Edition1st edition; minor wear/scuffing to dust jacket; boards are sharp on edges; no internal markings. Essays. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

Hardcover w / dustjacket. Very good condition; edges, corners, and covers of

Hardcover w / dustjacket. Very good condition; edges, corners, and covers of book show minor wear. No underlining; no highlighting; no internal markings except for previous owner's name on ffep. DJ is vg. No remainder mark. Stored in sealed plastic protection. In the event of a problem we guarantee full refund. 1996. Hardcover w / dustjacket.

8"-9" tall.

8"-9" tall.

New York. 1996. Harcourt Brace. 1st American Edition. Very Good In

New York. 1996. Harcourt Brace. 1st American Edition. Very Good In Dustjacket. ISBN: 0151001685. 169 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Steven Cooley. FROM THE PUBLISHER-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. Breyten Breytenbach (born 16 September 1939) is a South African writer and painter. He also holds French citizenship. Breyten Breytenbach was born in Bonnievale, Western Cape, approximately 180 km from Cape Town and 100 km from the southernmost tip of Africa at Cape Agulhas. He studied fine arts at the University of Cape Town and became a committed opponent of the policy of apartheid. He left South Africa for Paris in the early 1960s. When he married a French woman of Vietnamese ancestry, Yolande, he was not allowed to return: The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949) and The Immorality Act (1950) made it a criminal offence for a white person to have any sexual relations with a person of a different race. In France he was a founder member of Okhela, a resistance group fighting apartheid in exile. On an illegal trip to South Africa in 1975 he was betrayed (by the ANC who mistrusted him), arrested and sentenced to seven years of imprisonment for high treason: his work The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist describes aspects of his imprisonment. Released in 1982 as a result of massive international intervention he returned to Paris and obtained French citizenship. He currently divides his time between Europe, Africa, and the United States. He joined the University of Cape Town as a visiting professor in the Graduate School of Humanities (from January 2000) and is also involved with the Gorée Institute in Dakar (Senegal) and with New York University, where he teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program. The work of Breytenbach includes numerous volumes of poetry, novels, and essays, many of which are in Afrikaans, many translated from Afrikaans to English, and many published originally in English. He is also known for his works of pictorial arts. Exhibitions of his paintings and prints were shown in numerous cities around the world including Johannesburg, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Paris, Brussels, Edinburgh and New York. Breytenbach was described as the only example of a ‘nice South African' in the song I've Never Met A Nice South African. The song was written by John Lloyd for the satirical British TV series Spitting Image. He is the brother of Jan Breytenbach, founder of the South African Special Forces, and Cloete Breytenbach, a widely published war correspondent. inventory #24293.