Nadine Gordimer along with Toni Morisson, Marguerite Yursenar and Doris Lessing is considered to be a model female writer and her writing one of the best objects of study and analysis of narration technique and ideology. The form she uses in this novel is a revelation of style and originality. Specific phrases, phenomenally tending to repeat themselves every now and then, address directly to subconscious (appearing first as a dialogue, then as a given and finally as the initiation of Thinking). The combination of those phrases follows an almost mathematical way and becomes one of the main axons of her narration. Language against authorities sharp as knife, direct hits against religion, leading dialogues revealing invisible but very much alive sides of the characters, cursed by a south African realism, contemporary, shocking and dreadful. “It is not enough for someone to say that he is a writer. He must do what he can!”. She avoided answering to how she must have suffered during many decades under the shadow of a totalitarian regime. Who dares and say that the path of virtue is not narrow and dark after all?
by NTINA KITSOU
Ntina Kitsou was born in Korinth, Greece in 1972. After having won a literary prize in 1998 she has published a novel (Veronica and the Colonel, Editions Patakis), several pastiches and short stories. She has collaborated with Diavazo Monthly Book Review with best sellers reportage, literary commentaries, reviews, interviews (amongst which with Paco Ignacio Taibo II, David Sedaris and Aris Fioretos) and written articles for Conference magazines.
ntina.kitsou@gmail.com
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