Poet in prison
Sir, — Congratulations on reprinting (August 2) the London “Economist” article, “The Afrikaners’ revenge . . .” — the case of the leading Afrikaans poet, Breyten Breytenbach, who has been at the mercy of the South African police and judiciary for more than a year now. Horrifying as his situation is in a South African jail — a year’s solitary confinement, duped cruelly and heartlessly by a police spy — its most horrifying aspect is the deafening silence, the wall of apathy and indifference behind which the Western world shields itself from contemplation of his agony. As he languishes in his ceil, isolated from all human contact, Breytenbach may well ask himself, bearing in mind the world-wide uproar on behalf of another literary celebrity, how much suffering an Afrikaans poet must endure before he excites the same concern as a Solzhenitsyn.— Yours, etc.,
M. CREEL. 2, 1977. i
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