Volume 31, Number 16 · October 25, 1984
Living in the Night
By Neal Ascherson
Mouroir: Mirrornotes of a Novel
by Breyten Breytenbach
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 257 pp., $13.95
A few months ago I talked to a man who is a senior cabinet minister in an African state that recently fought its way to independence. We were supposed, I think, to talk about politics. On that subject, there was plenty waiting to be discussed: a third year of drought, a feverish shuffling for position in the party local elections, a dirty little war against 'dissidents' far away from the capital. This man had the reputation of being harsh in office, of using personal power like a hammer against his rivals. But when he began to talk, the subject was his time in prison.
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