Beethoven Was One Sixteenth Black
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Author |
: Nadine Gordimer |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 189 |
Release |
: 2007-11-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429967600 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429967609 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black by : Nadine Gordimer
"You're not responsible for your ancestry, are you . . . But if that's so, why have marched under banned slogans, got yourself beaten up by the police, arrested a couple of times; plastered walls with subversive posters . . . The past is valid only in relation to whether the present recognizes it." In this collection of new stories, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black, Nadine Gordimer crosses the frontiers of politics, memory, sexuality, and love with the fearless insight that is the hallmark of her writing. In the title story a middle-aged academic who had been an anti-apartheid activist embarks on an unadmitted pursuit of the possibilities for his own racial identity in his great-grandfather's fortune-hunting interlude of living rough on diamond diggings in South Africa, his young wife far away in London. "Dreaming of the Dead" conjures up a lunch in a New York Chinese restaurant where Susan Sontag and Edward Said return in surprising new avatars as guests in the dream of a loving friend. The historian in "History" is a parrot who confronts people with the scandalizing voice reproduction of quarrels and clandestine love-talk on which it has eavesdropped. "Alternative Endings" considers the way writers make arbitrary choices in how to end stories—and offers three, each relating the same situation, but with a different resolution, arrived at by the three senses: sight, sound, and smell.
Author |
: Nadine Gordimer |
Publisher |
: Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0878054456 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780878054459 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Conversations with Nadine Gordimer by : Nadine Gordimer
Talks with the prize-winning author of Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories, July's People, The Pickup, and many other book
Author |
: Nadine Gordimer |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2012-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781408832967 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1408832968 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis July's People by : Nadine Gordimer
For years, it has been what is called a 'deteriorating situation'. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family - liberal whites - are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his native village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July - the shifts in character and relationships - gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites.
Author |
: Alexander Wheelock Thayer |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 1921 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:319510017246860 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven by : Alexander Wheelock Thayer
Author |
: Nadine Gordimer |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 561 |
Release |
: 2011-11-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780747596189 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0747596182 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Life Times by : Nadine Gordimer
Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novels. Together with her essays, this highly imaginative and committed body of work won her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. In the opinion of the Academy: 'Through her magnificent epic writing she has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity.' Gordimer has said that while novelists take the reader by the hand developing 'a consistency of relationship that does not and cannot convey the quality of human life, where contact is more like the flash of fireflies, in and out, now here, now there, in darkness. Short-story writers see by the light of the flash; theirs is the only thing one can be sure of - the present moment.' Now, for the first time, the best of her stories are published in one volume.
Author |
: Matthew Guerrieri |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 2014-03-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804170192 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0804170193 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis The First Four Notes by : Matthew Guerrieri
A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012 A New Yorker Best Book of the Year Los Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the Year This revelatory book of music history examines what is perhaps the best known and most-popular symphony ever written—and its famous four-note opening. Reaching back before Beethoven’s time, Matthew Guerrieri uncovers premonitions of the opening notes in the rhythms of ancient Greek poetry and the music of the French Revolution. He discusses the Fifth’s impact when it premiered, tracing the artistic, philosophical, and political reverberations across Europe to China, Russia, and the United States, from Romanticism to ring tones, from propaganda to pop. This fascinating piece of musical detective work is a treat for music lovers of every stripe.
Author |
: Nadine Gordimer |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2012-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781408832974 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1408832976 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Conservationist by : Nadine Gordimer
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm. As the upheaval in Mehring's world increasingly resembles that in the country as a whole, it becomes clear that only a seismic shift in ideas and concrete action can avert annihilation.
Author |
: Nadine Gordimer |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 2012-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781408832981 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1408832984 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black by : Nadine Gordimer
This rich story collection will be a reminder to Nadine Gordimer's countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her enduring imaginative power. A woman gauges the state of her marriage by the tone of her husband's cello; a wife reads her husband's mood by the scent in the nape of his neck; a newly emigrated couple are divided by visual obsession, he with his native Budapest, she with South African suburbia. With consummate artistry, Gordimer illustrates the show downs, standoffs and highlights of human intimacy while penetrating the nuances of immigration, national identity and race.
Author |
: Nadine Gordimer |
Publisher |
: New Africa Books |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0864866321 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780864866325 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Loot and Other Stories by : Nadine Gordimer
Ten fictions, each a revelation of our interior lives, each entering unforeseen contexts of our contemporary world. In the title story an earthquake exposes both an ocean bed strewn with treasure among the dead, and the avarice of the town's survivors.
Author |
: Nadine Gordimer |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 1980-11-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101571057 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101571055 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Burger's Daughter by : Nadine Gordimer
"A riveting history of South Africa and a penetrating portrait of a courageous woman." -- The New Yorker A must read fiction of South Africa from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature This is the moving story of the unforgettable Rosa Burger, a young woman from South Africa cast in the mold of a revolutionary tradition. Rosa tries to uphold her heritage handed on by martyred parents while still carving out a sense of self. Although it is wholly of today, Burger's Daughter can be compared to those 19th century Russian classics that make a certain time and place come alive, and yet stand as universal celebrations of the human spirit. Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born and lives in South Africa.