The Cambridge companion to J.M. Coetzee:

Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee is amongst the most acclaimed and widely studied of contemporary authors. The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee provides a compelling introduction for new readers, as well as fresh perspectives and provocations for those long familiar with Coetzee's works. All of...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2020
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Zusammenfassung:Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee is amongst the most acclaimed and widely studied of contemporary authors. The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee provides a compelling introduction for new readers, as well as fresh perspectives and provocations for those long familiar with Coetzee's works. All of Coetzee's published novels and autobiographical fictions are discussed at length, and there is extensive treatment of his translations, scholarly books and essays, and volumes of correspondence. Confronting Coetzee's works on the grounds of his practice, the chapters address his craft, his literary relations and horizons, and the relationship between his writings and other arts, disciplines and institutions. Written by an international team of contributors, this Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to this important writer, establishes new avenues of discovery, and explains Coetzee's undiminished ability to challenge and surprise his readers with inventive works of striking power and intensity
"J. M. Coetzee is the author of thirteen novels, three autobiographical fictions, and several volumes of translations, critical essays, correspondence, and short stories. Born in 1940 in Cape Town, South Africa, and resident there throughout his childhood and for much of his adult life, he has lived since 2002 in Adelaide, Australia. Claimed initially as a South African author, and subsequently by a host of other constituencies, Coetzee's career has been powerfully shaped by his intimate experiences of apartheid's brutality and the demands of decolonization; the twilight of European imperialism and the persistent inequalities wrought by neo-colonialism and late capitalism; the 'hypercentrality' of the English language and the provinciality of the two settler colonies in which he has made himself at home.1 These experiences are at the heart of all Coetzee's writings, as is his commitment to a rigorous thinking through of literary practice, literary history, and the horizons conditioning literary forms and their expressive possibilities"--
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (lx, 268 pages)
ISBN:9781108623087
DOI:10.1017/9781108623087

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