ANDRE BRINK: THE AFRICAN
Monday 21 September, 8.10pm
Literature/Portrait
Andre Brink is well known for his novel A Dry White Season, which won France's
Medici’s foreign book prize in 1982. But who is the man behind this powerful
oeuvre? In this film, Brink's life is interwoven with the history of South
Africa, from the establishment of apartheid to the present day. His life was
one of struggle. Born in 1935 into an Afrikaans family that were sympathetic to
racial segregation, Brink rejected his family heritage and, via subversive
novels, campaigned constantly in favour of the Rainbow Nation. Once Nelson
Mandela had become president, he said to Brink: "When I was in prison, you
changed the way I viewed the world".
The film explores how Brink managed to free
himself from the conservative "Boer" values of his childhood, and how
he resisted the temptation of a comfortable exile in Paris, returning instead
to the lion's den, writing subversive novels.
THE BOOK CLUB (2014 Series)
Continues on Thursdays from 3 September, 8.00pm
Literature/Conversation
Hosted by Jennifer Byrne, with regular
panellists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger, The Book Club is an explosion of
robust and passionate discussion covering one new release book, and one
enduring classic.
Thursday 3 September, 8.00pm: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
by Karen Joy Fowler & The Chemistry
Of Tears by Peter Carey
Thursday 10 September, 8.00pm: Look Who’s Back by Timur Vermes & Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Thursday 17 September, 8.00pm: How
lust drives the narrative in literature and plays from Romeo And Juliet through to Fifty
Shades Of Grey.
Thursday 24 September, 8.00pm: Summer House With Swimming Pool by
Herman Koch & One Hundred Years Of
Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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