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Copyright New Introduction © 2003 Nadine Gordimer All rights reserved  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \nISBN 1-84407-040-9 paperback  \n1-84407-060-3 hardback  \nTranslated by Howard Greenfeld from Portrait du Colonise precede du  \nPortrait du Colonisateur, © by Editions Buchet/Chastel, Correa, 1957  \nPrinted and bound in the UK by Creative Print and Design Wales Cover design by Ruth Bateson  \nFor a full list of publications please contact:  \nEarthscan Publications Ltd  \n120 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9JN, UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7278 0433  \nFax: +44 (0)20 7278 1142  \nEmail: [earthinfo](earthinfo@earthscan.co.uk)[@](earthinfo@earthscan.co.uk)[earthscan.co.uk](earthinfo@earthscan.co.uk)  \n[Web:](Web: ww.earthscan.co.uk)[ ww.earthscan.co.uk](Web: ww.earthscan.co.uk)  \nEarthscan is an editorially independent subsidiary of Kogan Page Ltd and publishes in association with WWF-UK and the International Institute for Environment and Development  \nThis book is printed on elemental chlorine-free paper  \nPreface 1965  \nIt would be untrue to say that I foresaw the full significance of this book in 1957 when I wrote it. I had written a first novel, The Pillar of Salt, a life story which was in a sense a trial balloon to help me find the direction of my own life. However, it became clear to me that a real life for a cultured man was impossible in North Africa at that time. I then tried to find another solution, this time through the prob  \nlems of a mixed marriage, but this second novel,,  \nStrangers, also led me nowhere. My hopes then rested on the \"couple,\" which still seems to me the most solid happiness of man and perhaps the only real answer to solitude. But I discovered that the couple is not an isolated entity, a forgotten oasis of light in the middle of the world; on the contrary, the whole \\\\-orld is within the couple. For my unfortunate protagonists, the world was that of colonization. I felt that to understand the failure of their undertaking, that of a mixed marriage in a colony, I first had to understand the colonizer and the colonized, perhaps the entire colonial relationship and situation. All this was leading me far from myself and from my own problems, but their explanation became more and more complex; so without knowing where I would  \nend up, I had to at least try to put an end to my own anguish.  \nIt would be equally untrue to say that my ambition in painting this portrait of one of the major oppressions of our time was to describe oppressed peoples in general; it was not even my intention to write about all colonized people. I was Tunisian, therefore colonized. I discovered that few aspects of my life and my personality were untouched by this fact. Not only my own thoughts, my passions and my conduct, but also the conduct of others towards me was affected. As a young student arriving at the Sorbonne for the first time, certain rumors disturbed me. As a Tunisian, would I be allowed to sit for the examinations in philosophy? I went to see the president of the jury. \"It is not a right,\" he explained. \"It is ahope.\" He hesitated, a lawyer looking for the exact words. \"Let us say that it is a colonial hope.\" I have yet to understand what that meant in fact, but I was unable to get anything more out of him. It can be imagined with what serenity I worked after that.  \nThus, I undertook this inventory of conditions of colonized people mainly in order to understand myself and to identify my place in the society of other men. It was my readers-not all of them Tunisian who later convinced me that this portrait was equally theirs. My travels and conversations, meetings and books convinced me, as I advanced ","cbCainCWpJeY7qs7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainCWpJeY7qs7","pdf",2667778,199,"English","# Preface","[{\"question\":\"Why did Memmi write this book, according to the preface?\",\"answer\":\"He sought to understand the failure of a colonial mixed marriage and, more broadly, to grasp the dynamics of colonizer and colonized. 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