Nadine Gordimer Books

A profoundly moving book that combines the superb writings fo Gordimer and the stark, powerful photogrpahs fo Goldblatt to show us, in the details of individual lives, the great human damage wrought by apartheid. Black-and-white photographs.----------This work is another contribution to the growing pictorial record of apartheid in South Africa, and like some earlier series of black-and-white photographs it is haunted with pathos and irony. Like the pictures from Peter Magubane's Magubane's South Africa ( LJ 5/15/78), Goldblatt's images span 35 years and qualify as works of art in their own right. Complementing the harsh reality represented by the photographs are excerpts from the writings of South African novelist Gordimer, which in their way are as telling as the scholarly pieces that accompany South Africa, the Cordoned Heart , edited by Omar Badsha ( LJ 5/15/86), a work to which Goldblatt also contributed. Despite the photographic essays already available, libraries may still find this handsome book worth acquiring. Paul H. Thomas, Hoover Inst. Lib., Stanford, Cal.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

A startling new work from a Nobel prize-winning author: ten short stories, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world. In the title story an earthquake exposes both an ocean bed strewn with treasure among the dead, and the avarice of the town's survivors. In 'The Diamond Mine' a woman remembers her first, passionately erotic experience, hidden, in the company of her parents, with a soldier who may not be alive to remember her. The anopheles mosquito brings death to the saunas and other playgrounds of the developed with in 'The Emissary'. In 'Karma', Gordimer's inventiveness knows no bounds: in five returns to the earthly life, taking on different ages and genders, a disembodied narrator testifies to unfinished business - critically, wittily - and questions the nature of existence.

In this classic study of European colonialism, Albert Memmi examines the psychological effects of colonial ideology and system on both the coloniser and those colonised.

Nadine Gordimer's first novel, published in 1953, tells the story of Helen Shaw, daughter of white middle-class parents in a small gold-mining town in South Africa. As Helen comes of age, so does her awareness grow of the African life around her. Her involvement, as a bohemian student, with young blacks leads her into complex relationships of emotion and action in a culture of dissension.

At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

I dieci racconti che compongono questa raccolta sono una sintesi perfetta del percorso narrativo, politico ed esistenziale di Nadine Gordimer, una donna che ha avuto una profonda influenza sul proprio paese e una scrittrice che è stata capace di essere sensuale oltre che politica. L'eredità coloniale, il rapporto fra razze diverse, le ingiustizie sociali, le relazioni umane, l'amore nelle sue molteplici sfaccettature, la morte e l'aldilà sono i temi che affronta con uno sguardo aperto, interrogativo, a tratti ironico sulla natura della vita umana. Il tutto senza nascondere al lettore il privilegio di cui gode: la scrittura come mezzo per rendere reale l'immaginazione. Nel racconto che dà il titolo alla raccolta, l'oceano si ritira in seguito a un forte terremoto, rivelando così gli oggetti più svariati e la cupidigia dei sopravvissuti. "Come da protocollo" è la storia dell'idealismo di un burocrate, dei fantasmi della storia coloniale, e di una relazione d'amore che finisce in modo sorprendente. "La miniera di diamanti" è un esempio della sensualità del linguaggio nella Gordimer. E in "Karma" l'immaginazione dell'autrice si scatena: in una serie di reincarnazioni, un narratore ormai incorporeo ci mostra come il passato continui a influenzare il presente.

Contents: A city of the dead, a city of the living -- At the rendezvous of victory -- Letter from his father -- Crimes of conscience -- Sins of the third age -- Blinder -- Rags and bones -- Terminal -- A correspondence course -- Something out there.

A collection of short stories exploring the emotional and physical landscapes of South Africa.Contents: A soldier's embrace -- A lion on the freeway -- Siblings -- Time did -- A hunting accident -- For dear life -- Town and country lovers one -- (Two) -- A mad one -- You name it -- The termitary -- The need for something sweet -- Oral history.

In sixteen new stories ranging from the dynamics of family life to the worldwide confusion of human values, Nadine Gordimer gives us access to many lives in places as far apart as suburban London, Mozambique, a mythical island, and South Africa.

Originally published in 1979 as part of a collection of short stories, this is about a white couple and two black revolutionaries in Johannesberg. The story is set in a suburb which is in the grip of rumours of a strange creature said to be roaming among them.

After being abandoned by her mother, Hillela was pushed onto relatives where she was taught social graces. But when she betrayed her position as surrogate daughter, she was cast adrift. Later she fell into a heroic role in the overthrow of apartheid.

When Julie Summers' car breaks down in a sleazy street, a young Arab garage mechanic comes to her rescue. Out of this meeting develops a friendship that turns to love. But soon, despite his attempts to make the most of Julie's wealthy connections, Abdu is deported from South Africa and Julie insists on going too - but the couple must marry to make the relationship legitimate in the traditional village which is to be their home. Here, whilst Abdu is dedicated to escaping back to the life he has discovered, Julie finds herself slowly drawn in by the charm of her surroundings and new family, creating an unexpected gulf between them ... ‘As gripping as a thriller and as felt as a love song' IRISH TIMES

Brutal, scandalous, perverted, yet humorous, hummable, and with a happy ending- Bertolt Brecht's revolutionary masterpiece The Threepenny Opera is a landmark of modern drama that has become embedded in the Western cultural imagination. Through the love story of Polly Peachum and "Mack the Knife" Macheath, the play satirizes the bourgeois of the Weimar Republic, revealing a society at the height of decadence and on the verge of chaos. Complemented with music by Kurt Weill, it was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz into the theater, and the song "Mack the Knife" became one of the most popular and widely recorded songs of the twentieth century.

Toby Hood, a young Englishman, shuns the politics and the causes his liberal parents passionately support. Living in Johannesburg as a representative of his family's publishing company, Toby moves easily, carelessly, between the complacent wealthy white suburbs and the seething, vibrantly alive black townships. His friends include a wide variety of people, from mining directors to black journalists and musicians, and Toby's colonial-style weekends are often interspersed with clandestine evenings spent in black shanty towns. Toby's friendship with Steven Sithole, a dashing, embittered young African, touches him in ways he never thought possible, and when Steven's own sense of independence from the rules of society leads to tragedy, Toby's life is changed forever.

In an extraordinary period immediately before the first non-racial election and the beginning of majority rule in South Africa, Vera Stark, the protagonist of Nadine Gordimer's passionate novel, weaves a ruthless interpretation of her own past into her participation into the present as a lawyer representing blacks in the struggle to reclaim the land. None to Accompany Me is arresting and reverbant - perhaps the most powerful novel to date by one of the world's most commanding writers.

A passionate story of love, a family and a love of freedom.

This collection is a companion to the long-established and highly successful Modern Short Stories One and its essential aims are the same: to offer stories of high literary quality which, though written for adults, can be enjoyed and appreciated by adolescents. The fifteen stories included are by distinguished writers from Africa, America, Australia, India, Ireland, Italy and Great Britain; and within their artistic context several of them deal with the special personal and social concerns of society today.The collection includes stories by the likes of Dorothy Parker, Maeve Binchy, Garrison Keillor, Peter Carey, Flannery O'Connor and Nadine Gordimer.

Deals with the suicide of a South African of British descent who is torn by divided loyalties.

The writers include Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margaret Atwood, John Updike, Susan Sontag and Hanif Kureishi. Their stories capture the range of emotions and situations of our human universe: tragedy, comedy, fantasy, satire, dramas of sexual love, and of war, in different continents and cultures.

First published in 1963, this novel explores the love affair between a black man and a white woman in a time when lovers could be imprisoned for breaking the law against sexual relations across the colour bar.

A woman gauges the state of her marriage by the tone of her husband's cello; and a wife reads her husband's mood by the scent in the nape of his neck. This book illustrates the show downs, standoffs and highlights of human intimacy while penetrating the nuances of immigration, national identity and race.

A house gun--kept like a house cat: a fact of ordinary life at the end of this century where violence is in the air. With that gun the architect son of Harald and Claudia has committed what is to them the unimaginable act--shot dead the intimate friend he discovered making love to his woman. And the relationship between the three is revealed to have unimaginable meaning ... How has Duncan come to abandon the sanctity of human life they taught him? What kind of loyalty do parents owe a self-confessed murderer? In post-apartheid South Africa the defense of their son's life is in the hands of a black man: Hamilton Motsamai, a flamboyant, distinguished advocate returned from political exile. The balance of everything in the parents' world is turned upside down. The House Gun is a passionate narrative of that final text of complex human relations we call love, moving from the intimate to the general condition. If it is a parable of present violence it is also an affirmation of the will to reconciliation that starts where it must, between individual men and women

"A riveting history of South Africa and a penetrating portrait of a courageous woman." -- The New Yorker A must read fiction of South Africa from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature This is the moving story of the unforgettable Rosa Burger, a young woman from South Africa cast in the mold of a revolutionary tradition. Rosa tries to uphold her heritage handed on by martyred parents while still carving out a sense of self. Although it is wholly of today, Burger's Daughter can be compared to those 19th century Russian classics that make a certain time and place come alive, and yet stand as universal celebrations of the human spirit. Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born and lives in South Africa.

A terrifyingly plausible vision from one of the most enduring and acclaimed writers in the English language

James Bray, an English colonial administrator who was expelled from a central African nation for siding with its black nationalist leaders, is invited back ten years later to join in the country's independence celebrations. As he witnesses the factionalism and violence that erupt as revolutionary ideals are subverted by ambition and greed, Bray is once again forced to choose sides, a choice that becomes both his triumph and his undoing.

Nadine Gordimer's Booker Prize-winning story of the forces and relationships seething in the South Africa of the day

In this work, Nadine Gordimer unfolds the story of a young woman's slowly evolving identity in the turbulent political environment of present-day South Africa. Her father's death in prison leaves Rosa Burger alone to explore the intricacies of what it actually means to be Burger's daughter.Presents the story of a young woman's slowly evolving identity in the turbulent political environment of South Africa.

In these stories, selected by Nadine Gordimer herself, unforgettable characters from every corner of society come to life. The African landscape they inhabit - from the River Zaire to black Johannesburg to the hushed gardens of the white suburbs - is brilliantly depicted. The setting of these stories is South Africa, Nadine Gordimer's homeland; in their imaginative and compelling visions, their powerful implications are universal.

Playing truant, Will slips off to a movie theatre near Johannesburg and is shocked to see his father there--with a woman he doesn't know. The father is a "colored" schoolteacher who has become a hero in the struggle against apartheid; his companion is a white activist fiercely dedicated to the cause.

Not all whites in South Africa are outright racists. Some, like Bam and Maureen Smales in Nadine Gordimer's thrilling and powerful novel July's People , are sensitive to the plights of blacks during the apartheid state. So imagine their quandary when the blacks stage a full-scale revolution that sends the Smaleses scampering into isolation. The premise of the book is expertly crafted; it speaks much about the confusing state of affairs of South Africa and serves as the backbone for a terrific adventure.

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"Die endgültige Safari" schildert den Zug einer Flüchtlingsgruppe durch den Krüger Park von Südafrika. Um nicht entdeckt und zurückgeschickt zu werden, müssen sie sich verhalten 'wie Tiere unter den Tieren'. Es sind Menschen aus einem Dorf in dem vom Bürgerkrieg zerrissenen Mosambik, die zu ihren Landsleuten in Südafrika fliehen. Erzählt wird die Geschichte der Wanderung von einem elfjährigen Mädchen, das nicht verstehen kann, warum sie nicht zu ihrer verschollenen Mutter in Mosambik zurückkehren darf. Nadine Gordimer spielt in dieser Geschichte mit der Ironie des Begriffes Safari, konfrontiert den Tourismus der Weißen im Krüger Park mit dem Elend der schwarzen Flüchtlinge. "Der Moment, bevor der Schuß fiel" zeigt einen südafrikanischen Farmer auf der Gazellenjagd, begleitet von seinem "Boy", der in diesem Falle wirklich sein Junge, sein Sohn ist. In der Erregung der Jagd sind sich die beiden sehr nahe, da löst sich plötzlich ein Schuß und tötet den Jungen. Der Moment vor dem Schuß war die Spanne, in der die beiden sich als das fühlten, was sie waren, Vater und Sohn.

Liv Ullmann, Schauspielerin und Regisseurin, hat als UNICEF-Sonderbotschafterin 25 weitere prominente Zeitgenossen gebeten, persönliche Erfahrungen und Werte, die ihnen am Herzen liegen, weiterzugeben an real existierende eigene Enkelkinder wie überhaupt an alle jungen Menschen. In Briefen, Prosastücken und Reden sprechen sie von Frieden und Toleranz, von der Achtung von Mensch und Natur sowie von einem Leben in Würde: Harry Belafonte, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Dalai Lama, Umberto Eco, Oriana Fallaci, Marilyn French, Nadine Gordimer, Václav Havel, Thor Heyerdahl, Doris Lessing, Astrid Lindgren, Nelson Mandela, Martina Navratilova, Shimon Peres, Fay Weldon u. a.

Sieben Begebenheiten aus dem südafrikanischen Milieu enthüllen viel von den Konfliktstoffen der Menschen verschiedener Hautfarbe in einem Apartheidsstaat.

Il titolo di questo libro è l'essenza della "Lectio magistralis" pronunciata dall'autrice all'atto del conferimento del premio Nobel per la Letteratura nel 1991 e che viene qui riprodotta integralmente, assieme ad altri scritti e interviste. Da questi testi emerge la natura e il carattere della scrittrice che scrive della vita e per la vita dell'uomo e dei suoi diritti inalienabili. Un libro che fa toccare con mano la forza della scrittura che non si ferma davanti al razzismo e all'autoritarismo.

July, der jahrelang als "Boy" für das Ehepaar Bam und Maureen in Johannesburg gearbeitet hat, flieht mit ihnen und deren Kindern vor dem Bürgerkrieg in Südafrika in seine Heimat-Siedlung. Während die Kinder sich schnell anpassen, haben Bam und Maureen Schwierigkeiten mit der Einfachheit des Lebens und ihrem veränderten Verhältnis zu July.

Escritora sudafricana nacida en Springs (1923). Si al principio su obra se centra en la comunidad judía en su país (MUNDO DE EXTRAÑOS), pronto desplaza su interés a los problemas interétnicos que se viven en su tierra. LOS COMPAÑEROS DE LIVINGSTONE (1971) reúne varios relatos en los que están presentes sus temas favoritos. En 1991 recibió el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Componen esta libro: -LOS COMPAÑEROS DE LIVINGSTONE -LA CASA DE INKALAMU -CONFLUENCIA EN EL ESPACIO -ÁFRICA EMERGENTE

Die Erzählungen verdanken ihren Glanz, ihre emotionale Kraft und ihre Tiefe dem kühlen Blick, der scharfsichtigen Menschenkenntnis der Nobelpreisträgerin und natürlich ihrer stilistischen Brillanz. Sie hat eine einzigartige Fähigkeit, mit wenigen knappen Sätzen das Innerste einer Figur bloßzulegen.

Die Erzählung steht am Beginn ihres Schaffens: Mit vierzehn veröffentlicht Nadine Gordimer ihre erste Kurzgeschichte, die erste Buchpublikation ist ein Erzählungsband. Während die Romane ihren Weltruf begründeten, hält Gordimer die Kurzgeschichte für die literarische Form unserer Zeit, immer wieder kehrt sie zu ihr zurück. »Erlebte Zeiten« bietet nun erstmals einen Querschnitt dieses großen Werkes, Erzählungen, die einen Bogen über sechs Jahrzehnte spannen. Die Prägnanz ihrer Sprache, ihr Auge fürs Detail, die konzisen Alltagsbeobachtungen zeichnen ihre Erzählungen von jeher aus, ihre Kunst, große Themen in knappen Bildern zu inszenieren, ist unvergleichlich. Auch das essayistische Werk nimmt eine besondere Stellung in Nadine Gordimers Werk ein. Genuin offenbart sich in »Bewegte Zeiten« ihre unerschrockene politische Haltung, ihr kompromissloses Streben nach Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit. Ob sie über Apartheid, Zensur, eine Kindheit in Südafrika, über das Sklavenstädtchen Banana, den Kongo oder über Nelson Mandela schreibt, in jeder Zeile schwingen Redlichkeit und große Menschlichkeit mit. Und nicht zuletzt zeigt sie sich, in Überlegungen zu dem Einfluss moderner Technologien auf das Schreiben, als moderne und verblüffend jung gebliebene Autorin. Eine Autorin, vor deren klaren Verstand, tiefer Menschenkenntnis und jugendlicher Kühnheit man sich verneigen muss.

Mit einer seltenen Sensibilität für jene alltäglichen Dinge, die tiefer als große Veränderungen unter die Haut gehen, hat Nadine Gordimer den Akzent ihres Schreibens auf die Widersprüchlichkeiten der 'weißen Seele' im Südafrika der Rassentrennung gelegt: auf die Paradoxie, einer herrschenden Elite anzugehören und gleichzeitig an deren Brutalität zu leiden. So wurde sie nicht nur zur Chronistin des schwarzen Befreiungskampfes, sondern auch zur literarischen Erforscherin des psychischen Elends, das sich in den Villen der weißen Liberalen eingenistet hatte. Gerade in ihren Erzählungen erforscht sie in Standbildern von bewundernswerter Präzision die Selbstzweifel der progressiv eingestellten Intellektuellen, ihre etwas abgestandenen Existenzkrisen, ihre altmodische Libertinage, ihr Spießertum, ihre kleinen Fluchten in den Rausch oder ins politische Engagement - kurzum, ihre uneingestandenen Ängste um die eigene weiße Haut. Dank Nadine Gordimers großer erzählerischer Meisterschaft werden aus politischen Themen universale Dialoge.

Wir alle, so lehrt uns Nadine Gordimer mit ihren Erzählungen aus den späten sechziger und frühen siebziger Jahren, sind Livingstones Gefährten, wir, die wir nach Afrika fahren, dort leben oder auch nur darüber lesen. Denn mehr als jeder andere Mensch hat Livingstone, der berühmte Missionar und Forschungsreisende, die Konfrontation zwischen Europa und Afrika zu verantworten - eine Konfrontation, die heute noch offen oder kaschiert fortgeführt wird. Gordimers Geschichten kreisen vornehmlich um das Verhalten der privilegierten südafrikanischen Weißen, die sich zwar um Distanz zum System bemühen und gerne ihre liberale Einstellung zur Schau stellen - nach wie vor aber in 'rassistischen' Denkschemata befangen bleiben. Vor allem in ihrer Kurzprosa erweist sich Nadine Gordimer als präzise Beobachterin kleiner menschlicher Dramen, deren Bezug zum politischen Hintergrund auf unaufdringliche Weise gegenwärtig bleibt; als Balancekünstlerin, die es fertigbringt, ihre Protagonisten, und zwar weiße wie schwarze, mit ironischem Abstand und gleichwohl mit Sympathie darzustellen.

"Vielleicht gibt es keine andere Art, das Sein zu verstehen, als durch Kunst?" Wie in der Nobelpreisrede selbst konzentriert sich Nadine Gordimer auch in den anderen Essays dieses Bandes auf die Wahrheitssuche - geleitet von der Gewißheit, daß die Wahrheit, wenn sie nur unbeirrbar genug verfolgt wird, zum Verständnis des Seins führt. Aus ihrer südafrikanischen Position - zwischen erster und dritter Welt - schreibt Nadine Gordimer brillante Essays über afrikanische Schriftsteller wie Nagib Machfus und Chinua Achebe und über den israelischen Autor Amos Oz, der in ihren Augen wie sie versucht, die Wahrheit als Grundlage des Verständnisses zwischen zwei Völkern zu vermitteln. Hinzu kommen ein Aufsatz über den von ihr geliebten Joseph Roth und eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Nemesis realistischer Schriftsteller: die detektivische Neugier der Leserinnen und Kritikerinnen, die immer versuchen, die realen Vorbilder fiktiver Gestalten zu erraten.

Die Harenberg Bild-Tageskalender zeigen mehr als nur das Datum: An allen Tagen des Jahres exzellente Fotos auf den Vorderseiten und dazu informative Texte auf den Rückseiten - so lautet das bewährte Erfolgskonzept. Der Harenberg Bild-Tageskalender "Literatur" öffnet die Tür ins Reich der Bücher: Autorenporträts, Buch-Umschläge und -Illustrationen, Dokumente und Szenenfotos zeigen, wer oder was Rang und Namen in der Literatur hat.§Auf den Vorderseiten: täglich faszinierende Bilder; klares Kalendarium; kurze Bilderklärungen. Auf den Rückseiten: Hintergrundinformationen zum Bild des Tages; Sternzeichen und Namenspatrone; Auf- und Untergangszeiten von Sonne und Mond. Der Serviceteil im Anhang: Register mit allen Einzelthemen des jeweiligen Kalenders; Übersichten; Schulferien für Deutschland und Österreich.§

Keuze van verhalen van buitenlandse auteurs uit het fonds van de uitgeverijen Bert Bakker en Prometheus.

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V románe sa inšpirovala černošskými mýtmi a posmrtnom živote, ktoré majú svoj pedant v antickej viere v Hádesa. Hrdinom románu je bohatý priemyselník, ktorý žije v presvedčení že bohatstvo ho uchráni pred všetkým.

Mistrovské povídky, často s nečekaným rozuzlením, ve kterých jako hlavní hrdinové vystupují černoši i běloši různých společenských vrstev, odrážejí s vzácnou objektivitou spektrum rozdílných názorů, střetávání rozdílných společenských a politických tradic. Z povídek se silně humanistickým nábojem prolíná přesvědčení o nutnosti odstranění apartheidu.