Black Hamlet

First published in 1937, "Black Hamlet" is a chronicle of physician Wulf Sachs'' experiences psychoanalysing a man from a Johannesburg slum for two-and-a-half years. Originally an attempt to learn whether psychoanalysis was applicable across different cultures, Sachs'' findings became so much more. "Black Hamlet" is a narrative reconstruction of one black South African''s life as two worlds collid...