ANDRE’ BRINK THE WALL OF THE PLAGUE UNCORRECTED PROOF SOUTH AFRICA apartheid

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ABOUT THE BOOK === Helping to research her lover's film on the great plague, Andrea returns to Provence. However, her journey becomes more a trip of personal discovery than one of pure academic research as she begins to enjoy more and more of the idyllic lifestyle. Travelling with Mandla, a fellow South African and Black activist, helps Andrea put into perspective the more hedonistic elements of her new life. However, through the intensity of his own convictions Mandla forces his friend to re-assess her own beliefs, casting a shadow on the relationship. As the story unfolds in a landscape evoked with a breathtaking mastery, Andrea and Mandla confront the uneasy relationships which develop between themselves and their lovers. Their difficulties form an allegory for those faced by two disparate continents, as they undertake the process of reconciling Europe's past and Africa's present. REVIEWS == A languid, complex novel by one of South Africa’s most distinguished anti-apartheid writers, set a decade before the release of Nelson Mandela and the ensuing collapse of apartheid. Brink wrote in English when his work in Afrikaans began to be censored. The tales of horrific abuse, murder and rape are revealed slowly well into the novel to stand as shocking reminders of the criminal regime. Many aspects seem autobiographical. Brink is a writer, who, just like Paul, studied in France and found early success when a novel was made into a feature film. This book about plague may therefore be the very one Paul was writing, and it is dedicated to “Nanna,” who shares Andrea’s nickname. Recollections are narrated in third person, but Andrea’s present is narrated in first person—a task that Paul (Brink?) admits he assigned himself to understand her better. He created an implausible though not uninteresting woman, whose beauty, singular intelligence, striving for independence, and sexual hunger feel like the products of male fantasy. She seems incapable of relating to any other women. At one point, Mandla strikes her hard enough to draw blood, and she loves him more--a response difficult to reconcile with her other traits. It would be fascinating to know the real Andrea’s opinion of these characters. Was it Brink’s way of rationalizing his loss? Vignettes of various plagues in Provence are the topic of Paul’s would-be novel, and historical factoids and lengthy citations from well known authorities are interspersed as fact checking for Paul’s film, but they also serve to emphasize the metaphors. Andrea’s excursions in Provence, the Luberon and Vaucluse, are described in obsessive detail especially enjoyable for those who know the region. The two-meter high, dry stone wall, built in 1721 over 26-kilometers of savage terrain was intended to block northbound travellers during the dreadful plague that had begun in Marseille. By the time the wall was complete, plague had already appeared in places beyond. This metaphor of ineffective walls against plague is used throughout. The disease of racism, with its wall of apartheid, is the greatest plague of all. Its draconian wages include exquisite pain, death, and the impossibility of relationships even among people who love each other. Other walls are constructed around individuals who strive to preserve their autonomy and identity. But walls inevitably fail, and people can never be certain on which side they stand. MORE ABOUT == André Philippus Brink, OIS (29 May 1935 – 6 February 2015) was a South African novelist. He wrote in both Afrikaans and English and and is a Professor of English at the University of Cape Town. In the 1960s he, Ingrid Jonker, Etienne Leroux and Breyten Breytenbach were key figures in the significant Afrikaans literary movement known as Die Sestigers ("The Sixty-ers"). These writers sought to use Afrikaans as a language to speak against the apartheid government, and also to bring into Afrikaans literature the influence of contemporary English and French trends. His novel Kennis van die aand (1973) was the first Afrikaans book to be banned by the South African government.While Brink's early novels were especially concerned with apartheid policy, his later work engaged the new range of issues posed by life in a democratic South Africa. Brink writes his works simultaneously in English and Afrikaans. Brink was born in Vrede, in the Free State. Brink moved to Lydenburg, where he matriculated at Hoërskool Lydenburg in 1952 with seven distinctions, the second student from the then Transvaal to achieve this feat and studied Afrikaans literature in the Potchefstroom University of South Africa. His immense attachment with literature carried him to France from 1959 to 1961, where he got his degree from Sorbonne University at Paris in comparative literature. During his stay, he came across an undeniable fact that changed his mind forever: black students were treated on an equal social basis with other students. Back in South Africa, he became one of the most prominent of young Afrikaans writers, along with the novelist Etienne Leroux and the poet Breyten Breytenbach, to challenge the apartheid policy of the National party through his writings. During a second sojourn in France between 1967 and 1968, he hardened his political position against Apartheid, and began writing both in Afrikaans and English to enlarge his audience and outplay the censure he was facing in his native country at the time. André Brink translated Kennis van die aand into English and published it abroad as Looking on Darkness. This was his first self-translation. After that, André Brink wrote his works simultaneously in English and Afrikaans. In 1975, he obtained his PhD in Literature at Rhodes University. He died on a flight from Amsterdam to South Africa from Belgium, where he had received an honorary doctorate from the Belgian Francophone Université Catholique de Louvain. Brink's son, Anton Brink, is an artist.NovelsThe Ambassador Looking on Darkness An Instant in the Wind Rumours of Rain A Dry White SeasonA Chain of Voices The Wall of the Plague States of Emergency An Act of TerrorThe First Life of Adamastor (1993) On the Contrary Imaginings of Sand Devil's Valley The Rights of Desire Anderkant die Stilte (2002), translated as The Other Side of Silence Before I Forget (2004) Praying Mantis (2005) The Blue Door (2006) Other Lives (2008) Philida (2012)MemoirsA Fork in the Road (2009)EssaysLanguages of the Novel: A Lover's Reflections (1998) Psychedelics mescaline peyote ayahuasca lsd cannabis marijuana hashish psychedelic hippies DMT Science Fiction Fantasy Modern Literature SHIPPING COSTS FOR USA BUYERS ONLY is at $7.50 US Funds Includes Tracking Number . PLEASE NOTE: For USA and International Buyers , I ship ONLY ONCE a WEEK on THURSDAY AM from a USPS Post Office in Washington State, USA. Books will be Protected and Very Well Packaged. 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