The Ultimate Safari | Critical Overview
Because it was released shortly before Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Jump and Other Stories, the collection in which ‘‘The Ultimate Safari’’ was published, is not considered to be one of Gordimer’s major works. Nonetheless, the book received widespread reviews in the major media of the day, and several reviewers remarked specifically on the story itself.
John Banville, writing in the New York Review of Books, wrote that the story, one of the ‘‘three fine stories’’ in the collection, ‘‘fairly quivers with angry polemic,...
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