In the Fog of the Seasons' End

In the Fog of the Seasons' End is a 1972 novel by South African novelist Alex La Guma.^[1] Like many of La Guma's other novels, it is focused on challenging the social systems of apartheid in South Africa.^[1][2] The main character in the novel, Beukes, is an organizer of an anti-apartheid underground.^[3] The novel was dedicated to Basil February and other resistance fighters who died in Zimbabwe in 1967.^[3] The novel has been extensively explored as part of marxist literary criticism, while reflecting on La Guma's marxist political philosophy.^[4]

The title comes from the last line of a poem from Conte Saidon Tidiany.^[3] The novel was published with only 181 pages, with some critics describing it as merely a novella.^[3]

References

1. Nwagbara, Uzoechi (March 2011). "Arresting Historical Violence: Revolutionary Aesthetics and Alex La Guma's Fiction". Journal of Pan African Studies. 4 (3). Archived from the original on 29 January 2014.
2. Pushpa Naidu Parekh; Siga Fatima Jagne (1998). "ALex La Guma". Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 267–273. ISBN 978-0-313-29056-5.
3. Fritz Pointer (2001). "In the Fog of the Season's End: Image and Idea". A Passion to Liberate: La Guma's South Africa, Images of District Six. Africa World Press. pp. 177–225. ISBN 978-0-86543-818-7.
4. Mkhize, Jabulani (1 December 2010). "Shades of Working-Class Writing: Realism and the Intertextual in La Guma's In the Fog of the Seasons' End". Journal of Southern African Studies. 36 (4): 913–922. doi:10.1080/03057070.2010.527644. ISSN 0305-7070. S2CID 144364111.