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Banned for many years in the author's native South Africa, Looking on Darkness tells the story of actor Joseph Malan as he awaits execution for the murder of his white lover. André Brink panders to no one's political, ideological or religious beliefs in a controversial novel which has achieved international significance and abundant critical acclaim.
From three time winner of South Africa's most prestigious literary prize, the CNA Award.
From three time winner of South Africa's most prestigious literary prize, the CNA Award.
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"A novel of stature that explores our cancerous condition more persistently than any other novel has done before, and without the benefit of an anesthetic" (Alan Paton)
"Peter Carey, García Márquez, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: André Brink must be considered with that class of writer" (The Guardian)
"Strikingly effective" (The Times)
"A brutal, harrowing, desperately sincere piece of writing" (Sunday Times)
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"Peter Carey, García Márquez, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: André Brink must be considered with that class of writer" (The Guardian)
"Strikingly effective" (The Times)
"A brutal, harrowing, desperately sincere piece of writing" (Sunday Times)
'A brave and important novel, and in any terms a fine one - linguistically exciting, continually perceptive about society gone mad, [and] fiercely angry about cruelty' - Times Literary Supplement
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- PublisherWilliam Morrow & Co
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0688029248
- ISBN 13 9780688029241
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. First Printing. From the recently auctioned collection of Donald S. Olson--a superb copy in fine condition in an unclipped and near fine dustjacket. Tuquoise blue paper covered boards with black cloth spine and silver lettering. This is a near mint copy--tight and clean throughout. The dustjacket is unclipped and has just a touch of rubbing to the rear panel--or also would be fine. A great read--Brink writing style is unusual and captures your attention from the first few words of the first chapter. Doubt you will find a nicer copy. Protected in a new acrylic jacket cover. Free shipping within the USA. Seller Inventory # cfe13305
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Book Description hardcover. 1st edition. New York. 1975. Morrow. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0688029248. 400 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Terry Fehr. Signed by the Author. keywords: South Africa Literature Afrikaans. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This novel has been hailed as a major literary achievement and as one of the most searing novels ever to emerge from South Africa. Out of a language that is often shocking in its sexual graphicness and moving in its lyricism emerges the mind-battering tale of Joseph Malan. Malan, a Coloured man, becomes an actor, falls in love with a White woman, Jessica, and is tried for her murder. It is the first novel ever written in the Dutch language of South Africa, Afrikaans, to be banned in that country. This is AndrE Brink's English translation. It is revolutionary in that it breaks any and all formal alliances between language and politics. It was banned by the South African Supreme Court as pornographic, blasphemous, and communistic. J. D. Vorster, moderator of the General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church, said, '. If this is art, then a brothel is a Sunday school.' Alan Paton, distinguished author of Cry, the Beloved Country, hailed the beauty and humanity of the novel and called it 'a novel of stature . if pornography means the kind of writing disapproved of by people who are ashamed of the flesh, who shrink from explicit descriptions of sexual love, that Michelangelo's David is who think obscene, then Mr. Brink's book is pornographic.' In explosive, volcanic language AndrE Brink explores themes as old as narrative - black and white, love and murder, which here become entwined with the sexual history, the sexual anxiety, the violence, passion, and cruelty of an entire society run amuck with its fantasies and fear. This is a major work, a novel of sexual and political power where race and history assume terrifying and shocking new profiles. AndrE Brink was born in South Africa in 1935. Considered to be largely responsible for the first breakthrough of the modern Afrikaans novel, he became a leading spokesman for a generation of young South African writers known as the 'Sestigers' - men of the sixties. After a brief sojourn in Paris, Brink returned to South Africa in 1968 fully committed to exposing the social and political situation there. He said, 'I accept full responsibility for everything I write - not as a member of a small White enclave but as a writer of a country belonging more to Africa than to Europe.' Most of his writing has been in Afrikaans, including novels, plays, travelogues, and literary criticism. In addition, he has translated numerous works from English, Spanish, French, and German. inventory #11766 Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. Seller Inventory # z11766
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