Before I Forget
by André Brink
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Erotic, searingly honest, and a profoundly moving novel, this is the history of a life set against the history of a nation and, more than anything, a tribute to lost lovers and our very ability to love at all.Tags
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charl08 Key character an ageing writer contemplating his life choices. Both stark reading.
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Det hele starter med slutten og hva ble igjen? En forfatter lever sitt liv og prøver å rulle ut sitt liv en gang til for å kjenne, for å skjønne, for å ta bilder - nå uten kamera. En mann hvis liv ble å skrive, å elske endeløse antall kvinner og ikke helt å forstå eller kjenne sin mor eller fars liv. Etter at skrivingen har synes å stoppe opp, kommer to nye mennesker inn i hans liv - de bringer liv, kjærlighet, død og siden sorg. Men før det siste - speiling og erkjennelses-spenntak. Rammen er et Sør-Afrika i brutalitet, i forenkling og endelig - i endring.
Sep 3, 2018Norwegian
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Before I Forget is stitched from the memories of Chris Minaar, a 78-year-old writer, who measures out his life in love affairs. Minaar even includes among his ex-lovers a couple of women from Brink's own novels....
In the end Brink's angry, adoring attachment to South Africa is the strongest thing in this novel.
In the end Brink's angry, adoring attachment to South Africa is the strongest thing in this novel.
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André Brink was born on May 29, 1935 in Vrede, South Africa. He studied English and Afrikaans at the University in Potchefstroom and comparative literature in Paris. He was a South African writer and educator. He became a part of a group of writers known as Die Sestigers upon returning to South Africa in the 1960s. The group aimed to broaden show more Afrikaner fiction by writing about sexual and moral matters and the failings of the traditional political system. His books included Rumors of Rain, Looking on Darkness, A Dry White Season, and States of Emergency. Some of his books were banned in South Africa. He became a professor of Afrikaans and Dutch literature at Rhodes University and professor of English at the University of Cape Town. He has received the 1980 Martin Luther King Prize, the 1980 French Prix Medicis Etranger, and the 1982 Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize twice and nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature on several occasions. He died on February 6, 2015 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- L'amour et l'oubli
- Original title
- Before I forget; Voor ek vergeet
- Original publication date
- 2007
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