Writing and Being

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by Nadine Gordimer

Harvard University Press

Due/Published October 1996, 160 pages, paper

ISBN 0674692338

New in paper!!!Gordimer examines the tension for a writer between life's experiences and narrative creations. She tries to unravel the mysterious process that breathes "real life into fiction by exploring the writing of revolutionaries in south Africa and the works of Mahfouz, Achebe, and Oz. Ending on a personal note she reveals her own experience of "writing her way out of" the confines of a dying colonialism.