Wednesday 17 July 2013

Do Writers Have Interesting Lives? | Clarissa's Blog

Do Writers Have Interesting Lives? | Clarissa's Blog

I really liked Marechera's MINDBLAST, because he took a lot of political and artistic risks in writing it and chronicled them. He's in Zimbabwe and he's attacking the regime. He's also homeless and therefore extremely vulnerable. I do wonder whether, when he was drunk and sleeping, some enemy might have stabbed him with an AIDS infected needle, as this was the disease from which he died.

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