Abstract
On its publication in 1990, Nadine Gordimer's novel My Son's Story received some negative commentary along with critical acclaim; judgments like “too banal and too explicit” (Annan 10), “generalized and rather didactic” (Packer 777), and “too diagrammatic” (King 351) were scattered across review pages.1 More recently, Kathrin Wagner has noticed a “tendency toward generalisation in Gordimer's work,” pointing to “stereotypes” in her fiction (222 and passim). Some of those comments concern elements connected with the fabula: characters, events, and situations. Thus, several critics are unanimous in pronouncing something to be amiss: an abstract, “casebook” quality that mars the writing and renders the novel less engaging than previously published work by Gordimer.
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