Nadine Gordimer - Telling Times - Writing and Living, 1950-2008

Joseph Conrad and Almayer’s Folly

108 Author’s note to Almayer’s Folly .

109 ‘The world is a will to power — and nothing else besides.’ Nietzsche, Will To Power , translated by Walter Kaufmann, Random House, New York, 1967, p. 550. Quoted by Edward W. Said, ‘Conrad And Nietzsche’, in his collection Reflections on Exile and Other Essays , Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2000, p. 75.

Witness — Past or Present?

110 Jorg Lau, Die Zeit , 2000 (no precise date given).

111 Philip Gourevitch, ‘What They Saw at the Holocaust Museum’, New York Times Magazine , 2 December 1995.

Living with a Writer

112 Reinhold Cassirer died in 2001.

With Them You Never Know

113 Olaudah Equiano, Equiano’s Travels: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African .

114 Wulf Sachs, Black Hamlet — The Mind of an African Negro Revealed by Psychoanalysis , Geoffrey Bles, London, 1937; Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1996; Witwatersrand University Press (with a new introduction by Saul Dubow and Jacqueline Rose), Johannesburg, 1996.

115 Cecil Rhodes, attributed by Olive Schreiner, Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland , T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1897.

116 O. Mannoni, Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of Colonization , translated by Pamela Powesland, Praeger, New York, 1964.

117 Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism , Knopf, New York, 1993.

118 Generations later, among South African whites who joined the South African black liberation struggle, Jews were prominent, including Dennis Goldberg, sentenced to life imprisonment, Albie Sachs (post-apartheid Constitutional Court judge for fifteen years in free South Africa) who lost a leg and the sight of one eye when a bomb was hidden in his car, and Ruth First who was killed by a parcel bomb. Both these acts the work of the apartheid forces.

119 A colony: in Roman usage ‘a settlement of Roman citizens in a hostile or newly conquered country’, Oxford English Dictionary . Colonialism: ‘a policy whereby a nation maintains or extends control of foreign dependencies’, American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language .

120 Nosipho Majeke, The Role of the Missionaries in Conquest , publisher unknown.

121 Said, Culture and Imperialism .

122 Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth , Grove Press, New York, 1967.

William Plomer and Turbott Wolfe

123 Mongane Wally Serote, Scatter the Ashes and Go , Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 2002, p. 55.

124 Edward W. Said, ‘Challenging Orthodoxy and Authority’, Culture and Imperialism , Knopf, New York, 1993, p. 319.

Witness: The Inward Testimony

125 Franz Kafka, Diaries , 1921.

126 W. B. Yeats, Collected Poems .

127 Mongane Wally Serote, Yakhal’ Inkomo .

128 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness .

129 Czeslaw Milosz, Native Realm, Selected Poems .

130 Georg Lukács, The Theory of the Novel .

131 Primo Levi, If This Is a Man .

132 Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove (from Remembrance of Things Past ).

133 Albert Camus, The Rebel .

134 Milan Kundera, postscript to Life is Elsewhere .

135 Pablo Picasso, from my notebooks, unknown source.

Faith, Reason and War

136 Salman Rushdie, Guardian , 19 November 2005.

137 Amartya Sen, Identity and Violence — The Illusion of Destiny , W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2006.

Naguib Mahfouz’s Three Novels of Ancient Egypt

138 Georg Lukács, The Historical Novel, translated by Hannah and Stanley Mitchell, Merlin Press, London, 1965.

139 Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street , translated by Peter Theroux, Doubleday, New York, 1990.

140 Naguib Mahfouz, The Dreams , Dream 5, The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo and New York, 2005.

The Lion in Literature

141 See Shylock’s speech in The Merchant of Venice , Act III, Scene i.

142 Olaudah Equiano, Equiano’s Travels: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African .

143 Sol T. Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa .