Name: Living in Hope and History: Notes from Our Century - Nadine Gordimer (hardcover)
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Published by David Philip, 1999, hardcover, 244 pages, condition: as new.

Nadine Gordimer describes this collection of her non-fiction pieces as a reflection of how I've looked at this century I've lived in. The collection of essays, articles and addresses encompass Gordimer's own evidence of the inequities of apartheid as she saw them in 1956, her account of the bans on literature still in effect in the mid-1970s, through to South Africa's emergence in 1994 as a free country. Gordimer's canvas is global and her themes are wide-ranging. She examines the impact of technology on our expanding world-view, the convergence of the moral and the political in fiction and she reassess the role of the writer in the modern world.

This compilation of thoughtful pieces is probably one of Gordimer's most underrated books.
Often authors are asked about what inspires them to write, Gordimer here, penned down the very trajectory of her thought and not just what motivated her to write. She engages with a wide spectrum of authors who've influenced her, whom she's had an opportunity to interact with and upon those she's left a mark.
The book compels you to think about the revolutionary character that literature bears and how with mass culture, we assume that we've robbed literature off such capacities. Gordimer was someone who still deeply believed in the power of words and the potential it held to change our societies. She believed that no medium of communication held as much intensity as a good book did.
It is interesting how she stitches personal experiences, narratives and instances into the broader political context and how she perceived them. Understanding the relationship between fiction and politics, Gordimer considers literature as a part of liberation and that underlines her passion right there.
The book, very simplistically put, would explain to you, why she writes what she writes....

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