Praise for Breyten 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."—T
J. M. Coetzee has described Breyten Breytenbach as "able to descend effortlessly into the Africa of the poetic unconscious and return with the rhythm and the words, the words in the rhythm, that give
?The greatest Afrikaner poet of this generation. ? No one elevated the Boer language to such pure beauty and wielded it so devastatingly against the apartheid regime.”?The New YorkerThis eclectic and
Breytenbach composed this docu-dream during a period of incarceration. Mouroir (mourir: to die + miroir: mirror) is a ship of thought moving with its own hallucinatory logic through a sea of mythic im
?It is impossible to stop our ears against the excruciating power of what Breytenbach has to say.”??Nadine Gordimer?Obviously the greatest Afrikaner poet of this generation. . . . No one elevated the
Breytenbach's first visit to South Africa, after thirteen years in exile, is more than just a dazzling travelogue. He is searching for a "paradise" that coincides with the geography, mysticism, and my
