The Love Song Of Andre P. Brink - A Biography (Paperback)

The Love Song Of Andre P. Brink is the first biography of this major South African novelist who, during his lifetime, was published in over 30 languages and ranked with the likes of Gabriel García Márquez, Peter Carey and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Leon de Kock’s eagerly awaited account of Brink’s life is richly informed by a previously unavailable literary treasure: the dissident Afrikaner’s hoard of journal-writing, a veritable chronicle that was 54 years in the making. In this massive new biographical source – running to a million words – Brink does not spare himself, or anyone else for that matter, as he narrates the ups and downs of his five marriages and his compulsive affairs with a great number of women. These are precisely the topics that the rebel in both politics and sex skated over in his memoir, A Fork in the Road.

De Kock’s biographical study of the author who came close to winning the Nobel Prize for Literature not only synthesises the journals but also subjects them to searching critical analysis. In addition, the biographer measures the journals against additional sources, both scholarly and otherwise, among them the testimony of Brink’s friends, family, wives and lovers.

The Love Song Of Andre P. Brink subjects Brink’s literary legacy to a bracing scholarly re-evaluation, making this major new biography a crucial addition to scholarship on Brink

General

Imprint:	Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	May 2019
Authors:	Leon De Kock
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	496
ISBN-13:	978-1-86842-792-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Biography > Literary Books > Local Author Showcase > Biography > Literary
LSN:	1-86842-792-7
Barcode:	9781868427925

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Fri, 14 Oct 2022 | Review by: rowenaevans200

An outstanding read

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