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Gordimer Nadine
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Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black
Автор: Gordimer Nadine Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Год: 2009 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20112012-04-15
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»You're not responsible for your ancestry, are you... But if that's so, why have marched under banned slogans, got yourself beaten up by the police, arrested a couple of times; plastered walls with subversive posters... The past is valid only in relation to whether the present recognizes it». In this collection of new stories Nadine Gordimer crosses the frontiers of politics, memory, sexuality, and love with the fearless insight that is the hallmark of her writing. In the title story a middle-aged academic who had been an anti-apartheid activist embarks on an unadmitted pursuit of the possibilities for his own racial identity in his great-grandfather's fortune-hunting interlude of living rough on diamond diggings in South Africa, his young wife far away in London. “Dreaming of the Dead” conjures up a lunch in a New York Chinese restaurant where Susan Sontag and Edward Said return in surprising new avatars as guests in the dream of a loving friend. The historian in “History” is a parrot who confronts people with the scandalizing voice reproduction of quarrels and clandestine love-talk on which it has eavesdropped. “Alternative Endings” considers the way writers make arbitrary choices in how to end stories and offers three, each relating the same situation, but with a different resolution, arrived at by the three senses: sight, sound, and smell.
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July's Leute
Автор: Gordimer Nadine Жанр: Fischer Издательство: Fischer Год: 2008 Страниц: 206 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20102011-02-09
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Mit ihrem schwarzen Hausboy July und den drei Kindern fliehen Bam und Maureen Smales vor den Rassenunruhen aus Johannesburg in ein Dorf im Busch. Hier sind sie auf Gedeih und Verderb von July und seiner Familie abhängig. Mit der Umkehr der vertrauten Beziehungen beginnt für die Smales ein schmerzhaftes Abenteuer — ein Absturz aus der Zivilisation in die Wildnis.
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