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    On J.M. Coetzee: Writers on Writers

    Ceridwen Dovey

    With tenderness and insight, Ceridwen Dovey draws on personal history to explore the Nobel Prize-winner’s work - how his books ‘do theory’ on themselves - while also tracing the intellectual…

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    Slow Man

    J.M. Coetzee

    But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to…

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    J.M. Coetzee: a life in writing

    J.C. Kannemeyer

    Deals with Coetzee’s origins, early years, and first writings. This book corrects many of the misconceptions about Coetzee, and that illuminates the genesis and implications of his novels. It is…

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    Disgrace

    J.M. Coetzee

    After years teaching Romantic poetry in Cape Town, David Lurie has an impulsive affair with a student.

    The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry…

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    Life and Times of Michael K

    J. M. Coetzee

    In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone…

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    Brighton Rock: Discover Graham Greene’s most iconic novel.

    Graham Greene

    One of the first lessons I took from it was that a serious novel could be an exciting novel - that the novel of adventure could also be the novel…

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    J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace

    Dr Andrew van der Vlies (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

    One of the most widely read novels by a South African-born writer or ‘about’ South Africa, Nobel Laureate J M Coetzee’s (second) Booker Prize-winning novel, Disgrace (1999), is a firm…

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    J.M. Coetzee: Vorhaltungen

    Ulrich Horstmann

    J.M. Coetzee, Nobelpreistrager und wohl wichtigster Reprasentant der zeitgenoessischen sudafrikanischen Literatur, wurde von der internationalen Kritik aufgebaut. Dieses Buch fragt nach den Grunden und Interessen. Gleichzeitig werden die Vor-Haltungen und…

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    J.M. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture

    Andrew Gibson (Professor Emeritus in Modern Literature and Theory, Royal Holloway, University of London)

    Reads the writings of J.M. Coetzee against the democratic culture of neoliberalism and examines how, by aesthetic means, he enters a range of nuanced, subtly inflected differences with the dominant…

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    J.M. Coetzee and the Power of Narrative

    Gillian Dooley

    This book is a consideration of various themes and techniques ranging across famous South African writer J. M. Coetzee’s whole oeuvre. It aims to discover the how rather than what…

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    J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism

    K. Hallemeier

    Drawing on postcolonial and gender studies, as well as affect theory, the book interrogates cosmopolitan philosophies. Through analysis of J.M. Coetzee’s later fiction, Hallemeier invites the re-imagining of cosmopolitanism, particularly…

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    J.M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism

    K. Hallemeier

    Drawing on postcolonial and gender studies, as well as affect theory, the book interrogates cosmopolitan philosophies. Through analysis of J.M. Coetzee’s later fiction, Hallemeier invites the re-imagining of cosmopolitanism, particularly…

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    J.M. Coetzee: Fictions of the Real

    This collection considers the question of understanding itself in J.M. Coetzee’s work, and how it is central to our conception of the world. This book was originally published as a…

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    The Bloomsbury Handbook to J.M. Coetzee

    J.M. Coetzee - novelist, essayist and public intellectual - is widely recognized as one of the most important Anglophone writers in the world today, a status recognized with his 2003…

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    J.M. Coetzee: Fictions of the Real

    J.M. Coetzee has new things to say about this relation between the ‘real’ and ‘fictions of the real’, and the central problems he deals with in his fiction are of…

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    The Schooldays of Jesus

    J.M. Coetzee

    LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 Observer and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2016 David is the small boy who is always asking questions. It’s here, in his…

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    The Death of Jesus

    J.M. Coetzee

    Brilliant’ Evening Standard Simon and David - a tall ten-year-old - are in a new land, together with a woman named Ines.

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    Scenes from Provincial Life

    J.M. Coetzee

    Coetzee’s majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir, Boyhood, Youth and Summertime It opens in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s. As he interviews important figures in Coetzee’s…

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    Here and Now: Letters

    J.M. Coetzee

    Offers an epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. This book includes letters that touched on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, film festivals to incest…

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    Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005

    J.M. Coetzee

    A collection of the author’s literary essays from 2000 to 2005. It discusses writers such as Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Sandor Marai who lived through the Austro-Hungarian fin…

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    The Schooldays of Jesus

    J.M. Coetzee

    From the double Booker Prize-winning author of Disgrace, an astonishing novel of new beginnings and the troubles of youth. ‘Brilliant…

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    Diary of a Bad Year

    J.M. Coetzee

    An eminent Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions . For him, troubled by Australia’s complicity in the wars in the Middle East, it is…

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    The Childhood of Jesus

    J.M. Coetzee

    From the double Booker Prize-winning author of Disgrace, ‘a moving story of lost childhood’ (Sunday Telegraph). After crossing oceans, a man and a boy - both strangers to each other…

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    Summertime

    J.M. Coetzee

    A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee -…

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    Late Essays: 2006 - 2017

    J.M. Coetzee

    A fascinating collection of essays on literary subjects ranging from Daniel Defoe to Samuel Beckett by a Nobel and Booker Prize-winning writer Late Essays gathers together J.M.

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    The Pole and Other Stories

    J.M. Coetzee

    A pianist falls grandly, helplessly in love in this elegant new novella from the twice-Booker Prize winner

    The Pole tells the story of Witold Walczykiewicz, a vigorous, white-haired pianist, who…

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    J.M. Coetzee: Photographs from Boyhood

    J.M. Coetzee

    M.M. Coetzee provides insight into his childhood through his own lens. The photographs are an intriguing visual chronicle of Coetzee’s life. Although many know him as a serious and philosophical…

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    The Politics of Humiliation in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee

    Hania A.M. Nashef

    This study examines what J.M. Coetzee’s novels portray as the circumstances that contribute to the humiliation of the individual–namely the abuse of language, master and slave interplay, aging and senseless…

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    The Politics of Humiliation in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee

    Hania A.M. Nashef

    This study examines what J.M. Coetzee’s novels portray as the circumstances that contribute to the humiliation of the individual–namely the abuse of language, master and slave interplay, aging and senseless…

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    J.M. Coetzee and the Archive: Fiction, Theory, and Autobiography

    Making extensive use of the rich archival material contained within the Coetzee collections in Texas and South Africa, from the earliest drafts and notebooks to the research notes and digital…

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    Serious Fiction: J.M. Coetzee and the Stakes of Literature

    Duncan McColl Chesney

    Serious Fiction explores the novels of J.M. Coetzee, in dialogue with key works of the European literary tradition and several contemporary masterworks of world literature, in order to flesh out…

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    Literary Spaces in the Selected Works of J.M. Coetzee

    Katarzyna Karwowska

    This book analyses strategies applied by J.M. Coetzee for the representation of South African spaces. Subversive treatment of literary spatial conventions (e.g. the pastoral mode) results in the creation of…

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    J.M. Coetzee and the Archive: Fiction, Theory, and Autobiography

    Making extensive use of the rich archival material contained within the Coetzee collections in Texas and South Africa, from the earliest drafts and notebooks to the research notes and digital…

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    Pedagogy in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee: The Affect of Literature

    Aparna Mishra Tarc

    Critically analyzing the representation of pedagogy in the novels of J.M. Coetzee, this insightful text illustrates the author’s profound conception of learning and personal development as something which takes place…

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    In the Middle of Nowhere: J.M. Coetzee in South Africa

    Jonathan Crewe

    Relying on the author’s personal recollections as well as on J.M. Coetzee’s autobiographical and fictional works, this book deals with Coetzee’s formation as a writer of international prominence, whose life…

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    Metaphysical Exile: On J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Fictions

    Robert Pippin (Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago)

    Nobel Prize-winning novelist J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus fictions constitute a trilogy of novels that have appeared over the last decade. They stand out from his earlier work in their difficulty, and…

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    J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing

    David Attwell

    This treatise defends the literary and political integrity of South African novelist J.M. Coetzee by arguing that he absorbed the textual turn of postmodern culture while still addressing the ethical…

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    Pedagogy in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee: The Affect of Literature

    Aparna Mishra Tarc

    Critically analyzing the representation of pedagogy in the novels of J.M. Coetzee, this insightful text illustrates the author’s profound conception of learning and personal development as something which takes place…

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    Strong Opinions: J.M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction

    A collection of essays on Coetzee that examines how his novels create and unsettle literary authority. It shows how Coetzee provokes us into reconsidering certain basic formal and existential questions…

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    J.M. Coetzee’s Revisions of the Human: Posthumanism and Narrative Form

    Kai Wiegandt

    Ideas of the human that stress language use, reason, self-consciousness, autonomy and God-likeness are revised in his novels via a ‘poetic of testing’ which pits intertextually referenced ideas against each…

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    J.M. Coetzee’s Revisions of the Human: Posthumanism and Narrative Form

    Kai Wiegandt

    Ideas of the human that stress language use, reason, self-consciousness, autonomy and God-likeness are revised in his novels via a ‘poetic of testing’ which pits intertextually referenced ideas against each…

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    Strong Opinions: J.M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction

    Shows how Coetzee makes us reconsider certain basic formal and existential questions such as the nature of literary realism and the authority of the author.

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    J.M. Coetzee and the Novel: Writing and Politics after Beckett

    Patrick Hayes (Teaching Fellow in English Literature at St John's College, Oxford)

    This book argues that the significance of Coetzee’s complex and finely-nuanced fiction lies in the acuity with which it both explores and develops the tradition of the novel - ranging…

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    Beyond the Ancient Quarrel: Literature, Philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee

    Beyond the Ancient Quarrel brings together contributions from leading scholars to explore the boundaries between literature, philosophy, and literary criticism in the work of J.M. Coetzee.

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    Dusklands

    J. M. Coetzee

    This work contains two novellas. In the first, a specialist in psychological warfare is driven to murderous action by the stresses of a macabre project to win the Vietnam War…

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    In the Heart of the Country

    J. M. Coetzee

    Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But…

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    Disgrace: A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick

    J. M. Coetzee

    In spectacularly powerful and lucid prose, Coetzee uses all his formidable skills to engage with a post-apartheid culture in unexpected and revealing ways. This examination into the sexual and politcal…

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