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What people Say: Aubrey
Don't read this if you don't like politics, experimental writing, breaking down academic jargon to the bare necessities, candid displays of brutality and bodily functions of the female sort, and complete and utter lack of book-bound solutions for book-invoked problems. For those of you who require more holistic commitment and saviourless methodologies than the likes of and can offer, read on. Don't read this if you don't like politics, experimental writing, breaking down academic jargon to the bare necessities, candid displays of brutality and bodily functions of the female sort, and complete and utter lack of book-bound solutions for book-invoked problems. For those of you who require more holistic commitment and saviourless methodologies than the likes of and can offer, read on. Don't say I didn't warn you. That fact is that the majority of people who read this book on Goodreads will be white. There are variations of privilege in being white, but on the whole, should a white person's car stall while in the middle of a white neighborhood in Detroit, they upon asking for help at a nearby house will not be shot in the back of the head. I use this analogy grounded in the United States to explicate the contents of this book concerned with South Africa because while the United States is all I know, it was enough to teach me the difference between my words of understanding and others' lives of being a long time ago. It's a lesson that must be refreshed every time, all the time, for the ideological indoctrination comes in many forms and the books like this that survive them are few. The term 'code-switching' focuses on the minority, whatever dialect or modicum of expression that is inherently less powerful due to pomp and circumstance. Those who attempt to refute their physical privilege and the need for 'switching' entirely make the mistake of believing they can prove their claim through living, as if their lives were their own to do with what they will. Death is not an equalizer so long as history chooses the heroes. What this book is concerned with is a matter of existing with the least amount of blood on your hands. That's all. That's it. Now, there is plenty of social theory involved in that question, plenty of stories of those who have gone before, plenty of family and friends and peers and privileges to demarcate, explicate, perhaps even the boogeyBOSS of a Cthulhu government that will pull you into confrontation without the need for a single finger of effort on your part. There is the reality, there is PDF File: Burger's Daughter Book PDF
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the cause, and then there's you, and if you happen to be white in South Africa, not only could you flee through the favor of government that looks like you, your life would be the one applauded.
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I wanted to enjoy this so much more than I did. A story nearly strangled by apartheid written by an author with an indisputable knack for conveying in its many forms showed so much promise. But the stream of consciousness had me reading in circles. Even the dialogue became tedious as irregular punctuation obscured the sequence of speakers. The protagonist was too detached from all the other characters for my taste, preventing me from empathizing or understanding anyone in any profound se I wanted to enjoy this so much more than I did. A story nearly strangled by apartheid written by an author with an indisputable knack for conveying in its many forms showed so much promise. But the stream of consciousness had me reading in circles. Even the dialogue became tedious as irregular punctuation obscured the sequence of speakers. The protagonist was too detached from all the other characters for my taste, preventing me from empathizing or understanding anyone in any profound sense. I'd like to maintain hopes for Gordimer's other work, but this experience has left me wary.
Corey
Thank god this book is over. It was fascinating as a work of historical fiction on apartheid-era South Africa, and as a character sketch of someone who was born into the upper echelons of White PDF File: Burger's Daughter Book PDF
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anti-apartheid society but who lacked her own strong convictions on the topic. Otherwise, Nadine Gordimer lost me completely with her stream-of-consciousness-style narration and lack of a coherent plot. I can appreciate her beautiful use of language, but 360 pages of not understanding what’s going on tend Thank god this book is over. It was fascinating as a work of historical fiction on apartheid-era South Africa, and as a character sketch of someone who was born into the upper echelons of White anti-apartheid society but who lacked her own strong convictions on the topic. Otherwise, Nadine Gordimer lost me completely with her stream-of-consciousness-style narration and lack of a coherent plot. I can appreciate her beautiful use of language, but 360 pages of not understanding what’s going on tends to be a bit much. I lost concentration and patience at around page 200 and came to the conclusion that if I skipped 100 pages, I wouldn’t miss much. I still, however, read the first sentence of each paragraph, enough to know that the protagonist, Rosa Burger, had moved to Paris, was hanging out with pretentious French people and schtupping a married man. So… yeah… I can’t say that I regret skimming over the details as I had really picked up the book to learn a bit more about the life and legacy of Bram Fischer, and the glory days of South Africa’s Communist Party and I couldn’t give a f*** about Hemingway style ex-pats… a topic which has always elicited simultaneous boredom and disgust from me, although I can’t really explain why I hate it so much. Here’s an example of how awesome this book could have been (p.79): “But this death was the mystery itself. The death you were talking about; in the cottage. Circumstantial causes are not the cause: we die because we live, yes, and there was no way for me to understand what I was walking away from in the park. There was no way to deal with this happening but to gather the little plastic-foam tray and cellophane from which I’d eaten my lunch and go over and put it, as every day, as everyone else must, in the waste bin hooked to a pole. The revolution we lived for in that house would change the lives of the blacks who left their hovels and compounds at four in the morning to swing picks, hold down jack-hammers and chant under the weight of girders, building shopping malls and office towers in which whites like my employer Barry Eckhard and me moved in an ‘environment’ without sweat or dust. It would change the days of the labourers who slept off their exhaustion on the grass like dead men, while the man died. The children the white couple would make in their whites’ suburb would not inherit the house bought on the municipal loan available to whites, or slot safely into jobs reserved for whites against black competition. Black children – it was promised – would not have to live off the leavings we threw into the bin. Eckhard’s clients would no longer get rich by the effort of a phone-call to authorize a sale on the stock exchange. All that might change. But the change from life to death – what had all the certainties I had from my father to do with that? When the hunger ended and the kwashiorkor was wiped out as malaria was in the colonial era, when there were no rents extorted and no privately-owned mansions and cosy white bungalows, no white students in contemplative retreat where blacks could not live; when the people owned the means of production of gold, diamonds, uranium, copper and coal, all the mineral riches that had rolled to the bottom of the sack of Africa – one would be left with that. Nothing that had served to make us sure of what we were doing and
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why had anything to do with what was happening one lunchtime while I was in the square. I was left with that. It had been left out. Justice, equality, the brotherhood of man, human dignity – but it will still be there, I looked away everywhere from the bench and saw it still, when – at last – I had seen it once.―
David
Ooh. Ouch. Writing in fragments. I get it. Important South African Literature. I get it. Nobel Prize winning author. I get it. Writing a book in which nothing happens. I don't get it. There's much to the writing here, but it's just not worth the effort. An essay disguised as a novel. Boooo!
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Sara
At what point do you choose what you are already born into? Gordimer explores this puzzle in her densely lyrical novel, spinning out a fictional life for a fictional daughter of a fictional white anti-apartheid activist in 1970s South Africa. The daughter's ambivalence about having been born into a family committed to the cause, her clear-eyed assessments of the tensions and fault lines within the movement, and her memories of what happens to a family constantly struggling against society are wh At what point do you choose what you are already born into? Gordimer explores this puzzle in her densely lyrical novel, spinning out a fictional life for a fictional daughter of a fictional white anti-apartheid activist in 1970s South Africa. The daughter's ambivalence about having been born into a family committed to the cause, her clear-eyed assessments of the tensions and fault lines within the movement, and her memories of what happens to a family constantly struggling against society are what make this book worth it. But often the truth that this book has to tell is plastered over with Gordimer's impressionist language. I'm guessing the choice of styles is supposed to dramatize the conflict between a unique and individualized interiority (expressed through the romantic linguistic style) and a social movement that can't take such individualism into account. But -- it tried my patience.
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