Late Essays von J. M. Coetzee
2006 - 2017

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 304 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Verlag: Random House UKVintage
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9781784705657

A writer of JM Coetzee's stature needs no preamble... This book emerges as an engaging series of master classes in novel writing, from which we might distil a selection of dos and don'ts Lauren Elkin GuardianA fascinating collection of essays on literary subjects ranging from Daniel Defoe to Samuel Beckett by a Nobel and Booker Prize-winning writer

A fascinating collection of essays on literary subjects ranging from Daniel Defoe to Samuel Beckett by a Nobel and Booker Prize-winning writer<br><br>Late Essaysgathers together J.M. Coetzee's literary essays from 2006 to 2017. The subjects covered in this stunning collection range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee's contemporary Philip Roth. Coetzee has had a long-standing interest in German literature and here he engages with the work of Goethe, Hölderlin, Kleist and Walser. There are four fascinating essays on fellow Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett and he looks at the work of three Australian writers: Patrick White, Les Murray and Gerald Murnane. There are essays too on Tolstoy's great novellaThe Death of Ivan Ilyich, on Flaubert's masterpieceMadame Bovary, and on the Argentine modernist Antonio Di Benedetto.

1GBJ.M. Coetzee's work includesWaiting for the Barbarians,Life&Times of Michael K,Boyhood,Youth,Disgrace,Summertime,The Childhood of Jesusand, most recently,The Schooldays of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.

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