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J.M. Coetzee and the life of writing : face to face with time / David Attwell.
Van Pelt Library PR9369.3.C58 Z634 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Attwell, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coetzee, J. M., 1940-.
- Coetzee, J. M.
- Coetzee, J. M., 1940---Authorship.
- Coetzee, J. M., 1940---Criticism and interpretation.
- Authors, South African--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, South African.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Authorship.
- Biography in literature.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 248 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Viking, [2015]
- Summary:
- "J.M. Coetzee is one of the most intriguing of authors in all of world literature. Now, in J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing, David Attwell illuminates the extraordinary creative processes behind Coetzee's novels from Dusklands to The Childhood of Jesus. Using Coetzee's manuscripts, notebooks and research papers - recently deposited at the Ransom Center of the University of Texas at Austin - Attwell produces a fascinating story of the creative trajectory and the life out of which the fiction was engendered. He shows convincingly that all of Coetzee's work is autobiographical, the memoirs being continuous with the fictions, and that his writing proceeds with self-conscious and never-ending reflection. This is a moving and readable account which is bound to change the way Coetzee is read, by the critics and general reader alike"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Preface: the Coetzee papers
- An alphabet of trees: autobiography - the uses of impersonality
- Recusant Afrikaners: identity drift
- 1 January 1970: the beginning - Dusklands
- Karoo: the beloved landscape - Life & times of Michael K, In the heart of the country
- 'The burning of the books': censorship in the life of writing
- Writing revolution - Waiting for the barbarians
- Suburban bandit: Michael K as outlaw
- Crusoe, Defoe, Friday - Foe
- Mother - Age of iron
- Father - Summertime
- The shot tower - The master of Petersburg
- Migrations: irreconcilable lives - Elizabeth Costello, Disgrace
- The third stage: Australia - Slow man, Diary of a bad year, The childhood of Jesus.
- Notes:
- "First published in South Africa by Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliography (pages 239-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780525429616
- 0525429611
- OCLC:
- 919591064
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