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008			080410s2007 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2007033474
020			_a9780374109820
082	0	0	_aFIC GOR
100	1		_aGordimer, Nadine _d(, 1923-)
245	1	0	_aBeethoven was one-sixteenth black _b: and other stories _c/ Nadine Gordimer
246	3		_aBeethovan was 1/16th black
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Farrar, Straus and Giroux _c, 2007.
300			_a177 p. _c; 22 cm.
505	0		_aBeethoven was one-sixteenth black -- Tape measure -- Dreaming of the dead -- A frivolous woman -- Gregor -- Safety procedures -- Mother tongue -- Allesverloren -- History -- A bene.ciary -- Alternative endings -- The first sense -- The second sense -- The third sense.
520			_aIn these tantalizing and provocative short stories, Nobel prize-winning South African writer Gordimer experiments with various unusual points of view. The narrator in "Tape Measure," for example, is a tapeworm. "Dreaming of the Dead," meanwhile, is a dream about a fascinating conversation at a Chinese restaurant among the sleeper and the late Susan Sontag and Edward Said. In "Gregor," a narrator who admits to reading Kafka's diaries night after night sees a roach on the display screen of her electronic typewriter, and, with the help of a neighbor, dismantles the screen and destroys the roach. Gordimer raises the question: "What happens if something from fiction is not interiorised, but materializes? Takes in independent existence?" She can be quite playful, e.g., in "Historian," a parrot continually comments on the patrons of the restaurant where his cage hangs. The last three stories, though they all deal with the issue of adultery, arrive through the senses of sight, sound, and smell at three different outcomes.
650		4	_aShort stories, South African
655		7	_aShort stories
942			_cMO
999			_c267008 _d267008