Nadine Gordimer's Novels as Criticism of Life

Sarita Chauhan, Dr. Subhash Gautam

Abstract: Nadine Gordimer got Nobel Prize for literature though some of her novels were bitterly criticized by the supporters of White Community and their cruelty towards Blacks of South Africa. Being the staunch supporter of Karl Marx, William Wordsworth, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, James Joyce, W. H. Auden, Virginia Woolf etc., she supported the efforts of environmentalists of her age. She fought boldly for the fundamental rights of Blacks as mankind had moved many steps ahead in the fields of industrialization and Information Revolution. Like Sigmund Freud, she attached due importance to the dreams and inner psychology of her characters. She is to be greatly admired for her sympathy for the poor and wretched blacks who were badly exploited and harassed even in 20th century in South African cities and villages. There is no denying the fact that she was the herald of new age of communal love, liberty, equality, democratic socialism, economic regeneration and social reconstruction.

Keywords: Herald, Democratic Socialism, Probable, Humanitarian Outlook, Apartheid, Regeneration, Intellectual degeneration

How to Cite?: Sarita Chauhan, Dr. Subhash Gautam, "Nadine Gordimer's Novels as Criticism of Life", Volume 12 Issue 2, February 2023, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Pages: 341-343, https://www.ijsr.net/getabstract.php?paperid=MR23204172527, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21275/MR23204172527