THE NOVEL (SIGNED to Full Title Page): Language and Narrative from Cervantes to Calvino

HARDCOVER. SIGNED. THE NOVEL, Language and Narrative from Cervantes to Calvino by André Brink (1998). (May 29, 1935 - February 6, 2015). SIGNED to the Full Title page by Andre Brink, the author. Like New Condition copy. This is a FIRST Edition, FIRST Printing copy as stated on the copyright page. The dust jacket is in Like New condition with no issues. Book has no tears, marks, creases, remainder marks, library markings, or black lines on the edges. Not inscribed to anyone. Not price-clipped, not a Book Club Edition (BCE), or signed on a bookplate. True Collectible Quality. First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED to the Full Title page. No inscription; full signature only. This book will be carefully wrapped and shipped with free delivery confirmation. André Brink was born in Vrede, in the Free State. He moved to Lydenburg, where he matriculated at Hoërskool Lydenburg in 1952 with seven distinctions, the second student from the then Transvaal to achieve this feat, and studied Afrikaans literature at the Potchefstroom University of South Africa. His immense attachment to literature carried him to France from 1959 to 1961, where he got his degree from Sorbonne University in Paris in comparative literature. During his stay, he came across an undeniable fact that changed his mind forever: black students were treated on an equal social basis with other students. Back in South Africa, he became one of the most prominent young Afrikaans writers, along with the novelist Etienne Leroux and the poet Breyten Breytenbach, to challenge the apartheid policy of the National party through his writings. During a second sojourn in France between 1967 and 1968, he hardened his political position against Apartheid and began writing both in Afrikaans and English to enlarge his audience and outplay the censure he was facing in his native country at the time. Indeed, his novel Kennis van die (1973) was the first Afrikaans book to be banned by the South African government. André Brink translated Kennis van die and into English and published it abroad as Looking on Darkness. This was his first self-translation. After that, André Brink wrote his works simultaneously in English and Afrikaans. In 1975, he obtained his Ph.D. in Literature at Rhodes University. In 2008, in an echo of a scene from his novel A Chain of Voices, his family was beset by tragedy, when his nephew Adri Brink was murdered in front of his wife and children in their Gauteng home. Brink died on a flight from Amsterdam to South Africa from Belgium, where he had received an honorary doctorate from the Belgian Francophone Université Catholique de Louvain. The Novel: Language and Narrative from Cervantes to Calvino was published on April 1, 1998. ISBN: 978-0814-7133-03. BS13925.