Narrative strategy becomes particularly significant in evaluating a writer like Nadine Gordimer whose evolution as a writer of merit depends to a large extent on her skillful and competent use. “Narrative technique/strategy” can be interpreted as the way in which a novelist provides a detailed account of a series of connected events, experiences which may be true or fictitious using the skill. Gordimer's novel, The Conservationist, was a joint winner of the Booker prize in 1974. As one critic in the Observer notes (quoted on the back flap of the text), "The author of this beautiful pebble book has transcended his considerable talent and she has produced one of those rare works of imaginative literature that commands the special respect accorded artistic audacity and fulfilled ambition. Gordimer has earned herself a place among the few novelists who really matter ” The narrative strategy of the novel is complex and involves an equivocal treatment of the prediction of political change, the nature of a darkened white consciousness and the idea of ​​​​conservativeness The central protagonist of the novel, that of Mehring, the white "colonizer", he is not the narrator. A variety of different styles are used to suit different needs in the novel. A prominent contrast might be between the present-tense narration of what is presented as Mehring's current actions and thoughts, and the present-tense narration. past of past events, of the contemporary activities of others such as Jacobus, the chief farm laborer, and of enduring habitual conditions and activities, Gordimer's third-person narration is here directed at the representation of the society of the past. The narrator favors the white personified in him, old, passes...... middle of paper......ten ironic relationships between himself and the other, between the individual and society. A totally different discourse enters the narrative, undermining the kind of analysis that seems to dominate the story as in The Conservationist. In short, The Conservationist possesses all the techniques of a modern novel; symbols and metaphors flood him. Works Cited1. Clingman, Stephen R: The Novels of Nadine Gordimer: History from the Inside, London: Allen and Unwin, 1986.2. Gordimer Nadine, The Conservationist, New York: Viking Press, 1975.3. Hope, Chiristopher: 'Out of the Picture: The Novels of Nadine Gordimer', London Magazine, 15, April/May 1975, 49-55.4. Perrine, Laurence: History and Structure, New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc. 1959.5. Thorpe, Michael: 'The ancestor motif in The Conservationist', Research in African Literatures, 14, No.1, Spring 1983, 184-92.