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, Guardian

J.M. Coetzee's essays are filtered through boundless reserves of knowledge, wisdom and reading...A spare, dry sense of humour...Not a single page goes by in this collection when you don't learn something

Spectator

Coetzee remains a highly original thinker, able to take a much-dissected novel such as Flaubert’s <i>Madame Bovary</i> and offer an appreciation that stretches the boundaries of the reading experience. The most intriguing essay is one on Philip Roth, a rare occasion where Coetzee tackles one of his contemporaries

- Tobias Grey, Financial Times

Se alle

His essays are models of clarity, judicious reasoning, and respectful attention… a kind of sage who brings composure to bear on the earthquake zones of mind and heart. He is a master of prose’s lucidities, all the while cognisant of the hidden presence of poetry… <i>Late Essays</i> gives you the feeling that Coetzee has come to look into the eyes of writers, the better to read them with the justice they deserve

The Monthly

His interest is in delving into the writer’s mind, the circumstances surrounding the work and the thinking processes that led to writerly choices in terms of form, style, and themes...Above all, he brings the perspective of one who has much to teach us about slow reading.

Australian Book Review

This book of criticism casts all sort of gleaming spotlights, amid the shadows, from one of the major novelistic intelligences of our time. If you make the effort, it will shine and shine.

- Peter Craven, The Weekend Australian

Over the course of his career, Coetzee has accumulated a large body of writing on literary topics, which is of interest not only for the measured clarity of his arguments and judgments, but for the light it sheds on his creative work

- James Ley, The Sydney Morning Herald

Coetzee's third collection of literary essays, originally published as book introductions and reviews, is as entertaining as it is accessible.

Australian Financial Review

The scale of Coetzee's reading makes most British criticism seem dully provincial

Daily Telegraph

Coetzee the critic is every bit as good as Coetzee the novelist

Irish Times

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. 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 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich, on Flaubert’s masterpiece Madame Bovary, and on the Argentine modernist Antonio Di Benedetto.

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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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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781784705657
Publisert
2018-09-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
211 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

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Biografisk notat

J.M. Coetzee’s work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime, The Childhood of Jesus and, 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.