Anders Hallengren

he is himself the transition

July's People are Maureen and Bamford Smales, he an architect, she a housewife and former dancer, with three children, a nice suburban house, and a servant named July. I

In July's People, Gordimer portrays a future bloody South African revolution, which happily never took place.

It is a Cinderella tale summing up Africa's postcolonial history.

Gordimer took political and literary risks in this brutal fairy-tale

The Search for Identity

Nadine Gordimer's great themes are love and politics.

same search for an identity, a self-confirmation, and a wish to belong and exist.

For Gordimer, the novel and the short story are instruments to penetrate a society that defends itself against scrutiny, hides in censorship and hypocrisy, refuses to recognise its history, and thus produces a grammar of lies where capitalism, liberalism, and Marxism mean the same thing: an onslaught on the volk.

Her characters live in the shadow of violence, threatened by unpredictable brutality.

Through her language and fearless characterisation,