Stranger shores : literary essays, 1986-1999 / J.M. Coetzee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coetzee, J. M., 1940-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

viii, 295 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 2002.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

What is a classic?: a lecture

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Samuel Richardson, Clarissa

Marcellus Emants, A posthumous confession

Harry Mulisch, The discovery of heaven

Cees Nooteboom, novelist and traveler

William Gass's Rilke

Translating Kafka

Robert Musil's Diaries

Josef Skvorecky

Dostoevsky: The miraculous years

The essays of Joseph Brodsky

J.L. Borges, Collected fictions

A.S. Byatt

Caryl Phillips

Salman Rushdie, The moor's last sigh

Aharon Appelfeld, The iron tracks

Amos Oz

Naguib Mahfouz, The harafish

The poems of Thomas Pringle

Daphne Rooke

Gordimer and Turgenev

The autobiography of Doris Lessing

The memoirs of Breyten Breytenbach

South African Liberals: Alan Paton, Helen Suzman

Noël Mostert and the eastern Cape frontier.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Viking Penguin, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [282]-295).

ISBN:

0142001376

9780142001370

OCLC:

50984375