Nadine Gordimer

 La femme, la politique et le roman

Denise BRAHIMI, 2000, Paris, Karthala; Johannesburg, IFAS
ISBN : 2-84586-097-8
Coll. Lettres du Sud; Collection directed by Henry TOURNEUX

[Book in French]

Well before she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, Nadine Gordimer was better known as a white anti-apartheid South African activist. The fight against apartheid never stopped being an absolute priority for her. Yet she is aware of the paradox that consists, for a White, in fighting side by side with the Blacks. Whence the self-mockery giving her novels an unexpected flavour, exempt of any pathos and emphasis.