Vlam in die Sneeu: Die Liefdesbriewe van André P. Brink & Ingrid Jonker (Afrikaans Edition) Editor / Compiler: Francis Galloway
Vlam in die Sneeu: Die Liefdesbriewe van André P. Brink & Ingrid Jonker
The Uncut, Passionate, and Historic Correspondence of South Africa's Greatest Literary Lovers
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Vlam in die Sneeu: Die Liefdesbriewe van André P. Brink & Ingrid Jonker (Afrikaans Edition)
- Editor / Compiler: Francis Galloway
- Publisher: Umuzi / Penguin Random House South Africa
- Publication Date: 2016 (First Softcover Release)
- ISBN-13: 9781415209318
- Edition Details: First Trade Paperback Edition (Following the 2015 Limited/Hardcover Releases).
- Binding: Original publisher's heavy-gauge illustrated card wrappers (trade paperback).
- Physical Format: Medium Octavo (17 x 23 cm), 440 pages. Enriched with a comprehensive introduction by Willie Burger and a central section containing 17 full-colour historical photographs, original scans, and telegram reproductions.
- Language: Afrikaans text.
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Overall Very Good (VG)
- Exterior / Wraps: The softcover card wrappers are clean, flat, and securely bound with strong, vibrant coloration. The spine remains unbroken, uncreased, and highly stable, showing only microscopic surface storage rubbing along the edges and tips—completely standard for a carefully handled collectible copy.
- Interior: Structurally complete and tight. Internal pages, color photographic plates, and letter facsimiles are crisp, white, and beautifully preserved. The text block edge is clean with zero prominent foxing. Free from library attachments, owner signatures, text highlighting, or dealer markings.
- The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published to immense critical acclaim, Vlam in die Sneeu unveils a historic, profoundly moving archive of over 200 raw, unedited letters and telegrams exchanged between literary giants André P. Brink and Ingrid Jonker from April 1963 to April 1965. Kept strictly confidential by Brink for fifty years and released just months before his death, these documents expose the brilliant, clandestine, and agonizingly turbulent love affair that defined both of their public personas and creative lifetimes.
Arranged chronologically by editor Francis Galloway, the text maps their meetings across Paris, Cape Town, and Grahamstown, tracing a passionate connection bound by censorship, the political upheavals of apartheid-era South Africa, and deep emotional intensity. The exchange ends abruptly with Brink's final letter in April 1965, just three months before Jonker tragically drowned at Three Anchor Bay. This copy is a spectacular used collectible book capturing a monumentally important record of the Sestigers literary movement.
Author Profile: Francis Galloway
Dr Francis Galloway is a highly distinguished South African academic, literary researcher, editor, and archival specialist. She is widely recognized as one of the leading figures in modern Afrikaans publishing history, having spent years managing literary documentation centers and teaching at the University of Pretoria. Galloway's meticulous work transcribing, verifying, and preserving the intricate handwriting of both Jonker and Brink for Vlam in die Sneeu has been heralded by academics as a masterclass in archival editing. Her precise textual presentation ensures that this volatile, poignant correspondence stands as a completely preserved piece of South African history.
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