A collection of essays, the earliest of which appeared in 1959 and
the most recent last year. This is a remarkable testament to the
courage and henesty with which the author has consistently written
about the political and ethical issues facing our time. In her
introductory essay 'Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals and Politics',
Gordiner defends the relevance of the written word in a world which
is fast believing it can do without it. Later on, in 'Writing and
Being', borrowing her premise from Virginia Woolf, she looks at
humans, the 'only self-regarding animal', and writing as the means
to shape the greatest of ontological questions. A witty and
wide-ranging eye is cast over the major upheavals of the last
decade in international politics and reminds us of our
responsibilities for the next century. A timely read. (Kirkus UK)
Few writers have so consistently taken stock of the society in
which they have lived. In a letter to fellow Nobel Laureate
Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer describes this impressive volume as
'a modest book of some of the non-fiction pieces I've written, a
reflection of how I've looked at this century I've lived in.' It
is, in fact, an extraordinary collection of essays, articles,
appreciations of fellow writers and addresses delivered over four
decades, including her Nobel Prize Lecture of 1991. We may examine
here Nadine Gordimer's evidence of the inequities of Apartheid as
she saw them in 1959, her shocking account of the bans on
literature still in effect in the mid-1970s, through to South
Africa's emergence in 1994 as a country free at last, a view from
the queue on that first day blacks and whites voted together plus
updates on subsequent events. Gordimer's canvas is global and her
themes wide-ranging. She examines the impact of technology on our
expanding world-view, the convergence of the moral and the
political in fiction and she reassesses the role of the writer in
the world today.
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