Living in Hope and History: Notes from Our Century PDF
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ALSO BY NADINE GORDIMER NOVELS The Lying Days A World of Strangers Occasion for Loving The Late Bourgeois World A Guest of Honor The Conservationist Burger’s Daughter July’s People A Sport of Nature My Son’s Story None to Accompany Me The House Gun STORIES The Soft Voice of the Serpent Six Feet of the Country Friday’s Footprint Not for Publication Livingstone’s Companions A Soldier’s Embrace Selected Stories Something Out There Jump and Other Stories ESSAYS The Black Interpreters The Essential Gesture—Writing, Politics and Places (edited by Stephen Clingman) Writing and Being OTHER WORKS On the Mines (with David Goldblatt) Lifetimes Under Apartheid (with David Goldblatt) LIVING IN HOPE AND HISTORY NADINE GORDIMER LIVING IN HOPE AND HISTORY NOTES FROM OUR CENTURY Farrar, Straus and Giroux Copyright © 1999 by Nadine Gordimer All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Designed by Jonathan D. Lippincott First edition, 1999 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gordimer, Nadine. Living in hope and history : notes from our century / Nadine Gordimer—1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-374-18991-9 (alk. paper) 1. Gordimer, Nadine—Authorship. 2. Politics and literature—South Africa—History—20th century. 3. Literature and history—South Africa—History—20th century. 4. Literature and morals— History—20th century. 5. Ethics in literature. 6. Fiction—Authorship. I. Title. PR9369.3.G6Z468 1999 823—dc21 99-14741 For Antonin Miguet and Conrad Cassirer The new century is theirs CONTENTS One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, to speak the unspeakable, to ask difficult questions. —Salman Rushdie Three in a Bed: Fiction, Morals, and Politics The Status of the Writer in the World Today: Which World? Whose World? Turning the Page: African Writers and the Twenty-first Century References: The Codes of Culture The Lion, the Bull, and the Tree Günter Grass The Dialogue of Late Afternoon Joseph Roth: Labyrinth of Empire and Exile An Exchange: Kenzaburo Oe, Nadine Gordimer How shall we look at each other then? —Mongane Wally Serote 1959: What Is Apartheid? How Not to Know the African A Morning in the Library: 1975 Heroes and Villains Crack the Nut: The Future Between Your Teeth How Shall We Look at Each Other Then? 29 October 1989—A Beautiful Day, Com Mandela: What He Means to Us The First Time Act Two: One Year Later The Essential Document As Others See Us Labour Well the Teeming Earth The ceaseless adventure. —Jawaharlal Nehru The Writer’s Imagination and the Imagination of the State Writing and Being Living on a Frontierless Land: Cultural Globalization Our Century Notes
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