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The Gordimer Stories: Directed by Lynton Stephenson, Manie van Rensburg. With Ryno Hattingh, Nomsa Nene, Brian O'Shaughnessy, Isobel Pienaar.
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- Lynton Stephenson, Manie Van Rensburg
- Unrated
27 lug 2010 · Is there nowhere else where we can meet? -- The soft voice of the serpent -- Ah, woe is me -- The catch -- The train from Rhodesia -- A bit of young life --...
Always questioning power relations and truth, Gordimer tells stories of ordinary people, revealing moral ambiguities and choices. Her characterisation is nuanced, revealed more through the choices her characters make than through their claimed identities and beliefs.
She was responsible for the script of the 1989 BBC film, Frontiers, and for four of the seven screenplays for a television drama based on her own short stories, entitled The Gordimer Stories 1981-82. She also published, in forty languages, fifteen novels and many short story collections.
- Springs, Transvaal, South Africa
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Her stories concern the devastating effects of apartheid on the lives of South Africans—the constant tension between personal isolation and the commitment to social justice, the numbness caused by the unwillingness to accept apartheid, the inability to change it, and the refusal of exile. Nadine Gordimer, 1991.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Nadine Gordimer è stata una scrittrice sudafricana, autrice di romanzi e saggi, vincitrice del Booker Prize nel 1974 e del Premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1991. Nel gennaio 2007 le viene assegnato il Premio Grinzane Cavour per la Lettura.
23 apr 2020 · Gordimer’s knowledge and credibility are characteristic of all of her short fiction. “A City of the Dead, a City of the Living,” “Sins of the Third Age,” and “Blinder” could easily be included among the twenty best short stories of the twentieth century.
