Despite a Booker nomination and a Nobel Prize, these writers, unheard in their own land, feel oppressed by emptiness.

COETZEE, J. M., 1940-; GALGUT, Damon; GORDIMER, Nadine, 1923-2014

Discusses why there is a feeling of hopelessness among many white South African novelists, including John Maxwell Coetzee, Damon Galgut and Nadine Gordimer. Absence of an indigenous literary culture; Topic of indifference; Why there is a feeling of hopelessness among many of these white writers; Problem of literacy; Attitudes of many black South Africans regarding the novel; Comments of Gordimer; Discussion of Coetzee's novels, "Disgrace" and "Elizabeth Costello"; The sense of despair in Galgut's "The Good Doctor.".