Writing and Being (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Nadine Gordimer
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Prisoners, Authors or writers, Literature, Islam, South Africa or South Africans, Israel or Israelis, Palestinian Arabs, Apartheid
The title of this collection of six essays, first delivered as the 1994 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University, reflects Nadine Gordimer’s belief that the morality of living and the morality of writing are one. Reading her books (she has written nine collections of short fiction and eleven novels and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991), one likes to think that passionately committed writers such as Gordimer, some of whose books were banned in her native land of South Africa, played an essential role in the collapse of the white racist government and the...
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