Telling times : writing and living, 1954-2008 /

Telling times : writing and living, 1954-2008 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gordimer, Nadine
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2010.
Edition:1st American ed.
Subjects:
Gordimer, Nadine.
Women authors, South African > 20th century > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • The 1950s: A South Afrrican childhood: allusions in a landscape (1954)
  • Hassan in America (1955)
  • Egypt revisited (1959)
  • Chief Luthuli (1959)
  • Apartheid (1959). The 1960s: The Congo (1961)
  • Party of one (1963)
  • A Bolter and the invincible summer (1963)
  • Censored, banned, gagged (1963)
  • Great problems in the street (1963)
  • Notes of an expropriator (1964)
  • Taking into account: Simone de Beauvoir's Force of circumstance (1966)
  • One man living through it (1966)
  • Why did Bram Fischer choose jail? (1966)
  • The Short story in South Africa (1968)
  • Madagascar (1969). The 1970s: Merci Dieu, it changes: Accra and Abidjan (1971)
  • Pack up, black man (1971)
  • Unchaining poets (1972)
  • The New black poets (1973)
  • A Writer's freedom (1976)
  • English-language literature and politics in South Africa (1976)
  • Letter from Soweto (1976)
  • What being a South African means to me: address at the University of Cape Town (1977)
  • Transkei: a vision of two blood-red suns (1978)
  • Relevance and commitment (1979)
  • Pula!: Botswana (1979). The 1980s: The Prison-house of colonialism: Ruth First's and Ann Scott's Olive Schreiner (1980)
  • Letter from the 153rd state (1980)
  • The South African censor: no change (1981)
  • Unconfessed history: Alan Paton's Ah, but your land is beautiful (1982)
  • Mysterious incest: Patrick White's Flaws in the grass: a self-portrait (1982)
  • The Child is the man: Wole Soyinka's Aké: the years of childhood (1982)
  • Living in the interregnum (1983)
  • The Idea of gardening: J.M. Coetzee's The life and times of Michael K (1984)
  • New notes from underground: Breyten Breytenbach's Mouroir (1984)
  • The Essential gesture (1985)
  • Letter from Johannesburg (1985)
  • Huddleston: a sign (1988)
  • The Gap between the writer and the reader (1989)
  • Censorship--the final solution: the case of Salman Rushdie (1989)
  • The African pot (1989). The 1990s: A Writer's vital gift to a free society: The Satanic verses (1990)
  • Freedom struggles out of the chrysalis (1990)
  • Sorting the images from the man: Nelson Mandela (1990)
  • Censorship and its aftermath (1990)
  • Joseph Roth: labyrinth of empire and exile (1991)
  • Turning the page: African writers on the threshold of the twenty-first century (1992)
  • Beyond myth: Mandela's mettle (1993)
  • Rising to the ballot (1994)
  • Letter from South Africa (1995)
  • Cannes epilogue (1995)
  • Remembering Barney Simon (1995)
  • Our century (1995)
  • The Status of the writer in the world today: Which world? Whose world? (1997)
  • The Poor are always with us: the eradication of poverty (1997)
  • From a correspondence with Kenzaburo Oe (1998)
  • Octavio Paz: poet-archer (1999)
  • When art meets politics (1999)
  • A Letter to future generations (1999)
  • Five years into freedom: my new South African identity (1999)
  • Hemingway's expatriates: a way of looking at the world (1999). The 2000s: Personal Proust (2000)
  • Africa's plague, and everyone's (2000)
  • What news on the Rialto? (2001)
  • The Dwelling place of words (2001)
  • The Entitlement approach (2001)
  • The Ballad of the Fifth Avenue Hotel (2001)
  • Chinua Achebe and Things fall apart (2002)
  • Joseph Conrad and Almayer's folly (2002)
  • A Coincidence of wills? (2003)
  • Witness--past or present? (2003)
  • Fear eats the soul (2003)
  • Living with a writer (2003)
  • Edward Said (2003)
  • With them you never know: Albert Memmi (2003)
  • William Plomer and Turbott Wolfe (2003)
  • Atlantis (2003)
  • Thirst (2003)
  • Questions journalists don't ask (2003)
  • "To you I can": Gustave Flaubert's November (2004)
  • Leo Tolstoy and The death of Ivan Ilyich (2005)
  • Susan Sontag (2005)
  • Home truths from the past: Machiavelli or Erasmus? (2005)
  • Witness: the inward testimony (2006)
  • Desmond Tutu as I know him (2006)
  • Lust and death: Philip Roth's Everyman (2006) Faith, reason and war (2006)
  • Naguib Mahfouz's Three novels of ancient Egypt (2007)
  • Experiencing two absolutes (2008)
  • The Lion in literature (2006).