A Guest of Honour (novel)
A Guest of Honour is a 1970 fictional novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer. Published four years after her novel The Late Bourgeois World, the novel is a political novel that explores the role of revolutionary ideas in new African states.[1]
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| Author | Nadine Gordimer |
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| Country | South Africa |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
Publication date | October 22, 1970 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 504 |
| ISBN | 9780670356546 |
Critical reception
The New York Times reviewer Thomas Fisk called the novel "a long, spacious, comprehensive work of fiction" which has "something Olympian, something magnificently confident [about how] this South African writer goes about her work."[1] Fisk's review focuses on the stylistic qualities of the novel, calling the characters "exceedingly human: complicated, erring, driven by fleshy appetites and by the loftiest resolves" and discussing the setting as a "landscape so tactile and so sensuous that it becomes a participant in everything that occurs".[1]
References
- Lask, Thomas (30 October 1970). "'A Guest of Honor'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
Further reading
- Fido, Elaine (1 April 1978). "A guest of honour: A feminine view of masculinity". World Literature Written in English. 17 (1): 30–37. doi:10.1080/17449857808588500. ISSN 0093-1705.
- Donge, Jan Kees van (1 October 1982). "Nadine Gordimer's "A Guest of Honour": A Failure to Understand Zambian Society". Journal of Southern African Studies. 9 (1): 74–92. doi:10.1080/03057078208708051. JSTOR 2636733.
- Ogede, Ode S. (1 January 2006). "The Liberal Tradition in South African Literature: Still a Curse? Nadine Gordimer's A Guest of Honour Revisited". International Fiction Review. 33 (1). ISSN 1911-186X.
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