André P. Brink

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May 29, 1935 in South Africa

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Literature & Fiction

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Sestigers, politics

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André Philippus Brink is a South African novelist. He writes in Afrikaans and English and was until his retirement a Professor of English Literature at the University of Cape Town.

In the 1960s, he and Breyten Breytenbach were key figures in the Afrikaans literary movement known as Die Sestigers ("The Sixty-ers"). These writers sought to use Afrikaans as a language to speak against the apartheid government, and also to bring into Afrikaans literature the influence of contemporary English and French trends. His novel Kennis van die aand (1973) was the first Afrikaans book to be banned by the South African government.

Brink writes his works simultaneously in English and Afrikaans.

Brink's early novels were often concerned with the apartheid poli...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 1,666 ratings · 198 reviews · 60 distinct works

	A Dry White Season 3.98 avg rating — 552 ratings — published 1979 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Other Side of Silence 3.53 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1991 — 11 editions	My rating:
	An Instant in the Wind 4.09 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1977 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Devil's Valley 3.83 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1998 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Imaginings of Sand 3.77 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1995 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Rumours of Rain 3.83 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1979 — 13 editions	My rating:
	A Chain of Voices 4.07 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1982 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Rights of Desire 3.30 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Before I Forget 3.55 avg rating — 74 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Praying Mantis 3.64 avg rating — 61 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:

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“To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.”
― André P. Brink, Before I Forget

tags: acceptance , endings , relationships

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“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
― André P. Brink, Before I Forget

tags: love

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“I can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it - but I can never be on the inside of it with you. I cannot even be sure whether I really know what it is like. Is it 'like' my own? Or incomparable? Just as I can never know if what you see at any given moment is exactly the same as what I see. We look at a colour. We both call it red. But it is only because we have been taught to call it by that name. There is no guarantee - not ever - that we see it in the same way, that your red is my red.”
― André P. Brink, Before I Forget

tags: individual-experience

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