Michiel Heyns Books
Expulsion and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Scapegoat in English Realist Fiction
Novels, like communities, need scapegoats to rid them of their unexpressed anxieties. This has placed the realist novel under suspicion of collaborating with established authority, by reproducing t...
Read MoreEncounters with Andre Brink
By Michiel Heyns, Karina Magdalena Szczurek, Andre P. Brink
On the occasion of André's seventy-fifth birthday, his wife wanted to celebrate and pay tribute to his life in the medium he himself has chosen for his expression and creativity: the book. This is...
Read MoreThe typewriter s tale
""Live all you can; it's a mistake not to." This is the maxim of celebrated author Henry James and one which his typist Frieda Wroth tries to live up to. Admiring of the great author, she neverthel...
Read MoreA sportful malice
"Award-winning novelist Michiel Heyns is back with a darkly comic tale. When a young South African literary scholar, Michael Marcussi, is offered, via a Facebook contact, a house in the Tuscan vill...
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