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Stranger Shores: Literary Essays 1986-1999
A striking collection of 26 literary essays, many taken from The New York Review of Books, that amply display Coetzee's freethinking erudition and go-your-own-way intellectual honesty. In prose that is Read full review. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians is one of South Africa's major novelists. In this collection of 26 essays, many of them first published in the New York Review of Books, he gives careful, fair Coetzee's full name is John Michael Coetzee.
Born in Cape Town, South Africa, in , Coetzee is a writer and critic who uses the political situation in his homeland as a backdrop for many of his novels. Coetzee published his first work of fiction, Dusklands, in Another book, Boyhood, loosely chronicles an unhappy time in Coetzee's childhood when his family moved from Cape Town to the more remote and unenlightened city of Worcester. Stranger Shores : Literary Essays, Coetzee , John Michael Coetzee.
Coetzee is one of the world's greatest novelists. Now his many admirers can have the pleasure of reading his significant body of literary criticism. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-six pieces on books and writing. Stranger Shores opens with "What Is a Classic? All Rights Reserved. From inside the book. Stranger Shores: Literary Essays, J. Common terms and phrases American Bach become begins Borges born bring British Brodsky calls century character child claim Clarissa classic colonial comes continue course criticism culture death Dostoevsky Eliot emerge English essay Europe European experience fact father feeling fiction followed forces German give hand heart human ideas imagination instance Italy Kafka kind land language later least less letters liberal literary lives look means mother move Muirs Musil nature never novel original particularly past perhaps poems poet poetry political present published question readers reason remained respect Rilke Russian seems sense social society South Africa speak story tells tion translation Turgenev turn understand woman women writes young.
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It offers an impressive range of subjects, including a reappraisal of T. On first impressions, the pieces are well written, well argued, and contain a wealth of educated knowledge and insight.
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Two-time Booker Prize-winner J. Coetzee is one of the world's greatest novelists. This thought-provoking collection gathers twenty-six of his essays on books and writing. In his opening piece, "What Is a Classic? Coetzee goes on to discuss eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors such as Defoe and Turgenev, the German modernists such as Rilke, Kafka, and Musil, and the giants of late-twentieth-century literature, among them Brodsky, Gordimer, Rushdie, and Lessing.
STRANGER SHORES: LITERARY ESSAYS (1986-1999) By J. M. Coetzee
An extraordinary anthology of literary essays by the Booker Prize-winning author of In the Heart of the Country presents twenty-six pieces on books and writing, including "What is a Classic? A superb collection of essays by one of the world? This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the Rugby World Cup in South Africa. What he finds there is more than most people will ever know about themselves. Convert currency. Add to Basket. Book Description Viking, Condition: New.
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Stranger Shores: Essays 1986-1999
A striking collection of 26 literary essays, many taken from The New York Review of Books, that amply display Coetzee's freethinking erudition and go-your-own-way intellectual honesty. In prose that is Read full review. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians is one of South Africa's major novelists. In this collection of 26 essays, many of them first published in the New York Review of Books, he gives careful, fair Coetzee's full name is John Michael Coetzee. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, in , Coetzee is a writer and critic who uses the political situation in his homeland as a backdrop for many of his novels. Coetzee published his first work of fiction, Dusklands, in Another book, Boyhood, loosely chronicles an unhappy time in Coetzee's childhood when his family moved from Cape Town to the more remote and unenlightened city of Worcester. Stranger Shores : Literary Essays, Coetzee , John Michael Coetzee. Coetzee is one of the world's greatest novelists. Now his many admirers can have the pleasure of reading his significant body of literary criticism. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-six pieces on books and writing. Stranger Shores opens with "What Is a Classic?
