N adine Gordimer's ten novels and seven collections of short stories constitute an
impressive fictional achievement that is remarkable for its unity of vision and singleness of …

Nadine Gordimer is one of the few important, contemporary South African writers in the
forefront of that scene. Her steady, insightful literary productivity is thoroughly germane in …

How will Nadine Gordimer be read in the next century, when the conflict in South Africa may
no longer be dramatic front-page news? Andrew Vogel Ettin offers a persuasive interpretive …

By BARBARA ECKSTEIN I know a recent college graduate, a young white man from an ordi-
nary, comfortable suburb of an American Midwestern city. At Kenyon College he studied …

It is perhaps early to pronounce on the significance of A Guest of Honour in relation to Miss
Gordimer's oeuvre. It is her longest and most ambitious novel; it is about politics and …

Abstract Those who dislike Nadine Gordimer's work usually complain implicitly or explicitly
about her tone. And those who dislike her fiction come from both the right and the left. To …

Have those white South African novelists, committed to the struggle against racism,
depended upon apartheid, in a ghastly paradox, for their literary inspiration? Will feted …

Nadine Gordimer is one of South Africa's finest novelists, with five novels and five collections
of short stories to her credit, I and, if international literary prizes are anything to go by,> with a …

All that is and has been written by South Africans is profoundly influenced, at the deepest
and least controllable level of consciousness, by the politics of race. There is no country in …

I live at 6,000 feet in a society whirling, stamping, swaying with the force of revolutionary
change. The vision is heady; the image ofthe demonic dance-and accurate, not romantic: an …