Meditations on fiction, morality, and politics by the Nobel laureate. The writer sometimes must risk both the state's indictment of treason, and the liberation forces' complaint of lack of blind commitment. As a human being, no writer can stoop to the lie of Manichean "balance." The devil always has lead in his shoes, when placed on his side of the scale. Yet . . . the writer must take the right to explore, warts and all, both the enemy and the beloved comrade in arms, since only a try for the truth makes sense of being, only a try for the truth edges toward justice just ahead of Yeats's beast slouching to be born. -from the 1991 Nobel Prize Lecture Internationally celebrated for her novels, Nadine Gordimer has devoted much of her life and fiction to the political struggles of the Third World, the New World, and her native South Africa. Living in Hope and History is an on-the-spot record...
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