Damon Galgut: The Imposter – ‘n Boek om te lees.

09Jun09

William Skidelsky van The Guardian skryf:

This is also a novel that works on several levels. In one sense, it is a conventional crime caper, the story of an innocent man who gets sucked into a world that he doesn’t understand. In another, it is a critique of contemporary South Africa, a country that, as Galgut depicts it, is beset by cruelty and a spirit of brutish materialism.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/22/fiction.reviews

Justin Cartwright van die Gardian skryf:

The conclusion about the white man’s place in this South Africa doesn’t quite follow Coetzee’s judgment that it is at best ambiguous and at worst irrelevant. It seems the white man is acceptable to provide the knowhow, the capital and the market for corruption. Napier discourses on the possibility of a private aesthetic as a refuge from these harsh realities: he might immerse himself in poetry, landscape and beauty. “He shied away from history . . . It seemed almost a duty.” Now history has caught up with him in the most brutal fashion. These ambivalent post-apartheid novels are often more interesting than the apartheid novels, in which the moral choices were fairly simplistic. The Impostor is a bleak but compelling book, set in a time of profound uncertainty.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/14/saturdayreviewsfeatres.guardianreview6

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