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Stranger Shores

Literary Essays

By J. M. Coetzee

By J. M. Coetzee

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Aug 27, 2002 | ISBN 9780142001370

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About Stranger Shores

J.M. Coetzee’s latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. 

Two-time Booker Prize-winner J. M. 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 asks, “What does it mean in living terms to say that the classic is what survives?” He explores the answer by way of T. S. Eliot, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Zbigniew Herbert. 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.

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About J. M. Coetzee

Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, J. M. Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a PhD degree in literature. In 1972, he returned to South Africa… More about J. M. Coetzee

Product Details

Category: Literary Criticism | Literary Collections

Paperback | $17.00
Published by Penguin Books
Aug 27, 2002 | 304 Pages | 5-5/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780142001370

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Praise

Erudite, insightful, impressive in scope and subject matter. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Awards

Nobel Prize in Literature WINNER

Table Of Contents

One: What Is a Classic?”: A Lecture
Two: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Three: Samuel Richardson, Clarissa
Four: Marcellus Emants, A Posthumous Confession
Five: Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven
Six: Cees Nooteboom, Novelist and Traveler
Seven: William Gass’s Rilke
Eight: Translating Kafka
Nine: Robert Musil’s Diaries
Ten: Josef Skvorecky
Eleven: Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years
Twelve: The Essays of Joseph Brodsky
Thirteen: J.L. Borges, Collected Fictions
Fourteen: A.S. Byatt
Fifteen: Caryl Phillips
Sixteen: Salman Rushdie, The Moor’s Last Sigh
Seventeen: Aharon Appelfeld, The Iron Tracks
Eighteen: Amos Oz
Nineteen: Naguib Mahfouz, The Harafish
Twenty: The Poems of Thomas Pringle
Twenty-one: Daphne Rooke
Twenty-two: Gordimer and Turgenev
Twenty-three: The Autobiography of Doris Lessing
Twenty-four: The Memoirs of Breyten Breytenbach
Twenty-five: South African Liberals: Alan Paton, Helen Suzman
Twenty-six: Noel Mostert and the Eastern Cape Frontier
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