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A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

Learning to walk by walking (1986-09-19)

Type

Book Review

Published

1986-09-19
The Times Literary Supplement

Authors (1)

Breytenbach, Breyten

Citation

"Learning to walk by walking", The Times Literary Supplement, 19 Sep 1986, 1028 The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200450710/TLSH?u=linc74325&sid=gale_api&xid=46cce45f. Accessed 26 Jun 2024

Excerpt

Seven years' imprisonment in South African gaols split the Afrikaner writer Breyten Breytenbach into three. He first avenged himself on his captors with the most impenetrable prose of Mouroir: Mirrornotes of a Novel, the basis of which he wrote in confinement.

Repositories (1)

The Times Literary Supplement