THE CELIBACY OF FELIX GREENSPOON
Lionel Abrahams
Condition: Good. Some age toning to cover and edges, light shelf wear; spine intact and pages clean.
About the Book
A provocative and introspective novel by South African writer Lionel Abrahams, The Celibacy of Felix Greenspoon is both a character study and a meditation on conscience, sexuality, and the creative impulse. With humour and compassion, Abrahams explores the life of Felix a man whose moral and emotional restraint reflects the burdens of self-awareness and social complexity in late-20th-century Johannesburg.
Nadine Gordimer praised the work as something wild and unforgettable, and it remains one of the rare South African novels to examine with such psychological acuity the interior world of the intellectual outsider.
About the Author
Lionel Abrahams (19282004) was a poet, novelist, critic, and influential literary editor born in Johannesburg. He studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and devoted his life to South African letters, editing six volumes of Herman Charles Bosmans posthumous works, founding Renoster Books (which published Oswald Mtshali and Mongane Wally Serote), and co-founding Bateleur Press. He also co-edited South African Writing Today with Nadine Gordimer and was awarded the Pringle Prize for creative writing in 1977.
