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JULY'S PEOPLE NADINE GORDIMER • • • How strange and awful it seemed to stand naked under the sky! She felt like some new-born creature, opening its eyes in a familiar world that it had never known. - Kate Chopin, The Awakening Nadine Gordimer prefaces July's People with a passage from Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks: "The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms." The line serves as both a warning - preparing the reader for the disorienting journey he or she is about to begin - and as the thesis of the novel. In a 1987 interview, Gordimer addressed those readers whom she felt had "misread" her work. "People always say that July's People is about what happens after revolution in South Africa. But it isn't. . . . it is during. . . .it's about a time of civil war"...

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