Nadine Gordimer on Granta.com
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The Online Edition
Beethoven Was One Sixteenth Black
Nadine Gordimer
‘Once there were blacks wanting to be white. Now there are whites wanting to be black.’
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The Online Edition
L,U,C,I,E
Nadine Gordimer
‘I correct the spelling because I’m a lawyer and I’m accustomed to precision in language; in legal documents the displacement of a comma can change the intention expressed in a sentence and lead to new litigation.’
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Issue 40
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Issue 40
Look-Alikes
Nadine Gordimer
‘It was scarcely worth noticing at first; an out-of-work lying under one of the rare indigenous shrubs cultivated by the Botany Department on the campus.’
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Issue 40
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Issue 40
Some are Born to Sweet Delight
Nadine Gordimer
‘She stopped where she was; sourness was in her mouth and nose, oozing towards the foreign stranger, she mustn’t go a step nearer.’
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Issue 40
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Issue 40
The Ultimate Safari
Nadine Gordimer
‘We were in the war, too, but we were children, we were like our grandmother and grandfather, we didn’t have guns.’
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Issue 40
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Issue 40
Spoils
Nadine Gordimer
‘Everyone will be quite safe if they stay in the car and please roll up the windows, says the host.’
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Issue 17
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Issue 17
So Far
Nadine Gordimer & David Goldblatt
‘His photographs are a beginning, not a fixed moment.’
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Issue 17
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Issue 17
The Essential Gesture: Writers and Responsilbility
Nadine Gordimer
‘Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of creativity.’
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Issue 17
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Issue 17
What Were You Dreaming?
Nadine Gordimer
‘And I'm careful what I say, I tell them about the blacks, how too many people spoil it for us, they robbing and killing, you can't blame white people.’
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Issue 17
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Issue 17
City of the Dead, City of the Living
Nadine Gordimer
‘While I'm ironing, he cleans the gun. I saw he needed another rag and I gave it to him.‘
