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Chargement... Un caprice de la nature (1987)par Nadine Gordimer
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A strange novel. Gordimer traces Hillela, a free-spirited, Jewish, white South African from having sex with her cousin to becoming the widow of a black South African revolutionary and eventually the wife of an African freedom-fighter-turned-president of an unnamed country. Gordimer uses the third-person voice, but she writes about Hillela from a distance, almost through the eyes of other characters. Hillela does not seem especially ideological, at least in the beginning--she almost seems to fall into the life of being an African revolutionary. Or rather, she almost seems like an auxillary to African revolutionaries--she is almost always defined by who she sleeps with. Gordimer seems to be saying something here about sex and politics but I am not sure what. I think Gordimer is at her best when she writes about the delusions of Olga and Paulina, Hillela's aunts, the former being vapidly apolitical and the latter being liberal but not really grasping the enormity of apartheid and what it would take to kill it. ( ) The story of a woman who gained influence and power in Africa during the liberation upheavals. It was suggested that she achieved this by her intelligence and personal integrity but it was more by shifting from one man to another, each more powerful than the last. It was also written with asides to the future and past that often confused the story. Gordimer is one of my favorite writers, but I don't think this book is one of her best. I never really understood what motivated the protagonist and I was not convinced that her "revolutionary" ideas were anything more than a desire for personal revenge and undisciplined response to physical attraction to various men in the book. I think Gordimer was trying to demonstrate how Hillela's personal investment in ending apartheid after her husband's murder demonstrates that the sincere political comes from the personal. But the truly self-sacrificing and admirable characters in the book seemed to have a much deeper understanding than H. did. I couldn't like her and was disappointed in Gordimer as she has written some masterpieces on these themes.
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"A moving, powerful book that, in a career rich with distinguished works, could well be considered her masterpiece."--Publishers Weekly Hillela is Nadine Gordimer's "sport of nature": a spontaneous mutation, a new type of untainted person, she is seductive and intuitively gifted for life. A Sport of Nature is the bold, sweeping story of her rise from obscurity to an unpredictable kind of political power. Abandoned by her mother, Hillela is left to be raised by her two aunts in South Africa. At Olga's she might have acquired a taste for antiques and a style of dress to please a suitable husband. At Pauline's she might have developed a social conscience. But Hillela's betrayal of her position as a surrogate daughter so shocks both families that at seventeen she is cast adrift. Swiftly and perilously, her life opens out. She lives as a footloose girl among political exiles on a beach in East Africa, drifting between jobs and lovers, and finally becomes the wife of a black revolutionary. Personal tragedy is ultimately the catalyst for her political development, leading her into a heroic role in the overthrow of apartheid. This is the largest, most reverberant work of fiction we have had yet from one of the world's master novelists. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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