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Occasion for Loving is a 1963 novel by South African author Nadine Gordimer. It was her third published novel and sixth published book.
The novel focuses on a forbidden romantic relationship during apartheid between a woman in the wealthy white elite in South Africa and an African artist. Irving Malon, in The Kenyon Review, described this conflict as one of the central themes: "Love and politics — private feelings and public restrictions — clash and break Miss Gordimer's characters". A Nobel Prize essay described the novel as teaching that "apartheid cannot be reformed by pious words."




Contemporary reviews


John Thompson, in a 1963 review in the New York Review of Books, gave a mixed review of the novel, saying that "In the telling, the story is all quiet intelligence and art", while also noting that the "story itself moves rather dully until the black man appears."




Publication history


The novel was initially published by Viking Press, and included two epigraphs, one from Boris Pasternak and one from Thomas Mann.




References






Further reading


Barker, Derek A. (December 2007). "Crossing lines: the novels of Nadine Gordimer with a particular focus on "Occasion for loving" and "The pickup"". Literator. 28 (3): 91–107. doi:10.4102/lit.v28i3.170. ISSN 0258-2279.
Head, Dominic (1994). "The early novels: The Lying Days, A World of Strangers and Occasion for Loving". Nadine Gordimer. Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780511554391.
Tecucianu, Catalin (November 2014). "The Failure of Liberalism in Nadine Gordimer's Occasion for Loving". Research and Science Today. 2: 6–13.
Thielmann, Pia (1 October 1997). "Black-White Love in African Novels". Women's Studies Quarterly. 25 (3/4): 53–67. ISSN 0732-1562. JSTOR 40003372.

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