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Stranger shores literary essays 1986-1999 /

by Coetzee J. M.

Synopsis

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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Book Information

Copyright year 2001
ISBN-13 9780142001370
ISBN-10 0142001376
Class Copyright
Publisher Penguin Books
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 304
Shelf No. GX788
Grade Range 12 - 12
Ages 18 - 99