HARRY BLOOM

In Harry Bloom's Episode, the location does not belong to the old homogeneous community of the black man. . . but to the technological collecyivity of modern South Africa. In the African character we see not so much a picture of the past decaying in the present as the present painfully giving birth to the future.

-Nadine Gordimer, "The Novel & The Nation, II", Contact, August 15, 1959.