Gordimer, Nadine

“A Bolter and the Invincible Summer”


• The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
A World of Strangers


• The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the de...
Bernard, in Burger’s Daughter


• If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here...
“Censorship and its Aftermath”


• Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that af...
“Great Problems in the Street”


• The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mi...
Madame Bagnelli, in Burger’s Daughter


• If you live in Europe ... things change ... but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to t...
None to Accompany Me


• It was accepted tacitly that when he spoke of “our” people it was a black speaking for blacks, subtl...
“Pula!”


• A desert is a place without expectation.
“Speak Out: The Necessity for Protest”


• In a democracy—even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-élitist one—the greatest veneratio...
• Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow t...
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