Beethoven era per un sedicesimo nero

An interesting, small collection of short stories assembled around the general themes of loss, mortality and acceptance. The stories include: a South African university professor contemplating his roots; the “autobiographical” reflections of a tape worm; an imagined lunch the author has at a Chinese Leggi tutto

The second story is called "Tape Measure" and is a story told in the first person (!) by a tape worm. Needless to say (but I will anyway), I wondered what I had gotten myself into. I had only read Gordimer's July's People . I didn't think there was any weirdness in that and I definitely wasn't expect Leggi tutto

First off, Nadine Gordimer is an incredible writer. One of the most amazing linguistic architects I have read in some time. Her sentences, if you can call them that, traipse, meander, drive, flit, curve, circle, dead-end and serpentine in so many different directions in only a line or two. An amazin Leggi tutto

As Nadine Gordimer aged, she seemed to chart her own form of literature. This collection of short stories uses an array of complex sentences built with an unusual syntax that doesn’t flow (well, at least for this reader), has sparse dialogue (some stories have none) and has the point of view of a sc Leggi tutto

When in South Africa, one has to read some of her most formidable authors, no? Well, I thought so. After reading (and liking) her "July's People," I picked this up. Gordimer has a way with words. She puts things succinctly, viscerally. She captures the fraught nature of race in South Africa--not a s Leggi tutto

En esta colección de cuentos la sudafricana, ganadora del Premio Nobel 1991, Nadine Gordimer, nos regala un conjunto de historias con un espectro amplísimo que abarcan temas tan diversos como la política, la memoria, la sexualidad, el amor, la existencia y la finalidad de la vida, con esa tremenda c Leggi tutto