Alan Paton's tragic liberalism. (novelist)

American Scholar | June 22, 1997| | Copyright

In an essay written in 1975, Nadine Gordimer declared that South African literature in English had "made a new beginning with Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country, and indeed it could be said that Paton's novel put South Africa on the twentieth-century literary map. Within a few years of its publication in 1948, it had become a worldwide best-seller and was eventually translated into twenty, languages. At the time of Paton's death in 1988, it had sold over fifteen million copies and was still selling at the rate of one hundred thousand copies a year. It is not solely in ...

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