In Nadine Gordimer's short story "Six Feet of the Country," an unnamed first person narrator and his wife, Lerice, move out of Johannesburg, South Africa to their newly acquired farm. They hope the country lifestyle will change their marriage. However, rural life only presents new problems. When one of their farm boy's brothers dies, the narrator must get involved against his will. His resentment and bitterness gradually exposes his true nature. The short story explores themes including hypocrisy and empathy.
Nadine Gordimer (born 1923) was the Nobel Prize-winning author of short stories and novels reflecting the disintegration of South African society. While her early works were in the tradition of libera...
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"Nadine Gordimer has become, in the whole solid body of her work, the literary voice and conscience of her society," declared Maxwell Geismar in Saturday Review. In numerous novels, short stories, and...
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A Nobel Prize winner, an outspoken critic of apartheid, a frequently controversial public figure in her native South Africa, and one of the leading novelists of her age, Nadine Gordimer has been writi...
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Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer