A Guest of Honour (novel)

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A Guest of Honour is a 1970 novel by South African writer

The New York Times reviewer Thomas Fisk called the novel "a long, spacious, comprehensive work of fiction" which has "something Olympian, something magnificently confident [about how] this South African writer goes about her work."^[1] Fisk's review focuses on the stylistic qualities of the novel, calling the characters "exceedingly human: complicated, erring, driven by fleshy appetites and by the loftiest resolves" and discussing the setting as a "landscape so tactile and so sensuous that it becomes a participant in everything that occurs".^[1]

References

• Fido, Elaine (1 April 1978). "A guest of honour: A feminine view of masculinity". World Literature Written in English. 17 (1): 30–37.
  ISSN 0093-1705
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• Donge, Jan Kees van (1 October 1982). "Nadine Gordimer's "A Guest of Honour": A Failure to Understand Zambian Society". Journal of Southern African Studies. 9 (1): 74–92.
  JSTOR 2636733
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• Ogede, Ode S. (1 January 2006). "The Liberal Tradition in South African Literature: Still a Curse? Nadine Gordimer's A Guest of Honour Revisited". International Fiction Review. 33 (1).
  ISSN 1911-186X
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