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| Author | Nadine Gordimer |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
| Publication date | October 22, 1970 |
| Publication place | South Africa |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 504 |
| ISBN | 9780670356546 |
A Guest of Honour is a 1970 novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer. A Guest of Honour explores the role of revolutionary ideas in new African states.
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 this South African writer goes about her work." 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".
References
- ^ Lask, Thomas (30 October 1970). "'A Guest of Honor'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 30 October 2015. 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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