André Brink
Old Literature; New Climates



In Reinventions, Andre Brink examines the relationship between metropolis and margin in a postcolonial world, and the changing role of the writer in South Africa as literature evolves from functioning as an instrument of liberation to a vehicle for bolder flights of the imagination. This essay was originally presented in Copenhagen in August 1995 at the Conference of the International Association of University Professors of English.

André Brink was born in South Africa in 1935. He is the author of eleven novels in English, including A Dry White Season, A Chain of Voices, An Act of Terror, The First Life of Adamastor, On the Contrary and, most recently, Imaginings of Sand. With J.M. Coetzee, he is the co-editor of A Land Apart: A South African Reader. He has three times won South Africa's most important literary prize, the CNA Award, and has twice been short-listed for the Booker Prize. His novels have been translated into twenty-nine languages. He is a Professor of English at the University of Capetown.

This edition is co-published in association with The Delos Press, England. Only 100 copies are available in the USA.

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