Breyten Breytenbach Book List

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Book List in Order: 4 titles

Memory of Snow and of Dust
- Nov-1989
- / General Fiction
Meheret, an Ethiopian journalist, recounts her family history and her love for "mixed-blood" South African Mano in a series of letters to her unborn child and is betrayed by another writer who plagiarizes her work...

All One Horse
- Sep-2008
- / General Fiction
All One Horse is a marvel-filled journey through Breyten Breytenbach’s kaleidoscopic imagination. The electrifying colors and penetrating images of his paintings converse with his lyrical and satirical dream-fables. These visions and parables emerg...

Mouroir
- Apr-2009
- / General Fiction
Breytenbach composed this docu-dream during a period of incarceration. Mouroir (mourir: to die + miroir: mirror) is a ship of thought moving with its own hallucinatory logic through a sea of mythic images, protean characters and what the author descr...

Catastrophes
- Jun-2013
- / Literary
"The greatest Afrikaner poet of his generation."--"The New Yorker"
Reminiscent of Julio Cortazar's "Cronopios and Famas," this searing collection of lyrical and often nightmarish prose pieces is inventive in both language and vision. At once vul...

Breyten Breytenbach has published 4 books.

Breyten Breytenbach does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Catastrophes, was published in June 2013.

The first book by Breyten Breytenbach, Memory of Snow and of Dust, was published in November 1989.

No. Breyten Breytenbach does not write books in series.