It's Monday, what are you reading this week
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These last 3 weeks I've been reading Breyten Breytenbach's "The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist". Never thought it would take me so long to read, but it is not a light reading. Breytenbach was one of the founders of the Okhela movement in the 70's, a movement that was fighting against South african regime in exile. He was imprisoned during a trip he made to South Africa to find local contacts and was sentenced to nine years in prison, two of which were spent in isolation.
The confessions are his prison memories. Being a poet, he finds incredible images thast give you all the horror of life in prison. It is even stronger for me because now , after our theatre performance in a jaiI , the atmosphere is so much easier to imagine.
And it reminds of how horrible apartheid was. One of the charges against him was that he had married a vietnamese woman in Paris, and interracial marriages were illegal.
Scarry also to think that as he thought he was safe in france, he was still being followed there.
These last 3 weeks I've been reading Breyten Breytenbach's "The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist". Never thought it would take me so long to read, but it is not a light reading. Breytenbach was one of the founders of the Okhela movement in the 70's, a movement that was fighting against South african regime in exile. He was imprisoned during a trip he made to South Africa to find local contacts and was sentenced to nine years in prison, two of which were spent in isolation.
The confessions are his prison memories. Being a poet, he finds incredible images thast give you all the horror of life in prison. It is even stronger for me because now , after our theatre performance in a jaiI , the atmosphere is so much easier to imagine.
And it reminds of how horrible apartheid was. One of the charges against him was that he had married a vietnamese woman in Paris, and interracial marriages were illegal.
Scarry also to think that as he thought he was safe in france, he was still being followed there.