Turbott Wolfe"It is an inexplicable lapse on the part of literary scholars and critics," writes Nadine Gordimer in her Introduction, "that Turbott Wolfe is not recognised as a pyrotechnic presence in the canon of renegade colonialist literature along with Conrad." Indeed, William Plomers astonishing first novel, which first appeared in 1926, ignited a firestorm of controversy in his native South Africa. At the novels center is Turbott Wolfe, a British trader who