Late Essays, 2006-2017
New York, New York : Viking, [2017]
Format: Book
Description: 297 pages ; 22 cm
A new collection of twenty-three literary essays from the Nobel Prize-winning author. J. M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus , is now available from Viking. J. M. Coetzee is not only one of the most acclaimed fiction writers in the world, he is also an accomplished and insightful literary critic.
Contents:
Daniel Defoe, Roxana -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The scarlet letter -- Ford Madox Ford, The good soldier -- Philip Roth's tale of the plague -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The sorrows of young Werther -- Translating Hölderlin -- Heinrich von Kleist : two stories -- Robert Walser, The assistant -- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary -- Irène Némirovsky, Jewish writer -- Juan Ramón Jiménez, Platero and I -- Antonio Di Benedetto, Zama -- Leo Tolstoy, The death of Ivan Iyich -- On Zbigniew Herbert -- The young Samuel Beckett -- Samuel Beckett, Watt -- Samuel Beckett, Molloy -- Eight ways of looking at Samuel Beckett -- Late Patrick White -- Patrick White, The solid mandala -- The poetry of Les Murray -- Reading Gerald Murnane -- The diary of Hendrik Witbooi.
ISBN:
9780735223912
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Essays Coe | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-294).