AN AFRIKANER DANTE
PROFILE of Breyten Breytenbach, exiled South African poet and painter. Describes his early life, growing up in South Africa, his love of the Afrikaner …
"They weren't stupid. I think they must have realized that for me an empty canvas would have been an open field of freedom and they weren't going to allow me that." — Breyten Breytenbach on why the apartheid regime let him write in prison but forbade him to paint.