Intimate Stranger
Published on 22. March 2011
248 pages
978-1-935744-27-6 (ISBN)
Description
Addressed to a young writer, Intimate Stranger is an eclectic and generous work flowing with insight and wit. Breytenbach's candid and provocative reflections on reading and writing guide without guiding, open mental channels, surprise, and inspire. A stirring glimpse into the mind of an artist, Intimate Stranger is a river of experience and visions, brimming with sleights of tongue and overshifting in mood. This genre-defying gem makes manifest Einstein's assertion: "Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
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Person
An outspoken advocate for social justice, Breyten Breytenbach, is a poet, novelist, memorist, essayist and visual artist. His paintings, drawings, and collages have been exhibited around the world. In 1994 Breytenbach received the Alan Paton Award for Return to Paradise. He won The prestigious Hertzog Prize for Poetry for Papierblom in 1999, and again in 2008 for Die Windvanger (Windcatcher), for which he also received the University of Johannesburg Prize. Breytenbach is the author of A Season in Paradise, The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, All One Horse, Mouroir, Notes from the Middle World, Dog Heart, The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution, Lady One, and Voice Over: a nomadic conversation with Mahmoud Darwish, among others.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- PRE-WORD
- POETRY IS THE BREATH OF AWARENESS
- WATER WALKING
- WRITING IS FISHING
- WRITE TO THE TRUTH!
- WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
- READER, SWEET READER
- WHERE IS MY LOVE
- WRITING SUMMER
- NEW YORK, 12 SEPTEMBER 2001
- I SIT HERE
- REMEMBERING IMAGINATION
- AN APOLOGY
- LIFE WORK
- WRITERS WANDER
- THE ASHES AND US
- NIETZSCHE'S HORSE
- ON USING THE NOTEBOOK
- BERNARD
- MIND SHADOWS
- THE LONG AND THE SHORT
- OF PENISES AND PENINSULAS - the cento as dirge
- WRITE AND WRONG
- FRÈRE KHÈRE
- KNOWING IS ALWAYS A FUNCTION OF GRAMMAR
- THE RETURNS
- SURFACE
- TERRITORIALITY
- REALITY IS AN OPTICAL ILLUSION
- TOWARDS THE END
- GOING
- Copyright Page
