| Description |
297 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-294) |
| Contents |
Daniel Defoe, Roxana -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The scarlet letter -- Ford Madox Ford, The good soldier -- Philip Roth's tale of the plague -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The sorrows of young Werther -- Translating Hölderlin -- Heinrich von Kleist : two stories -- Robert Walser, The assistant -- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary -- Irène Némirovsky, Jewish writer -- Juan Ramón Jiménez, Platero and I -- Antonio Di Benedetto, Zama -- Leo Tolstoy, The death of Ivan Iyich -- On Zbigniew Herbert -- The young Samuel Beckett -- Samuel Beckett, Watt -- Samuel Beckett, Molloy -- Eight ways of looking at Samuel Beckett -- Late Patrick White -- Patrick White, The solid mandala -- The poetry of Les Murray -- Reading Gerald Murnane -- The diary of Hendrik Witbooi. |
| Summary |
A new collection of twenty-three literary essays from the Nobel Prize-winning author. J. M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus , is now available from Viking. J. M. Coetzee is not only one of the most acclaimed fiction writers in the world, he is also an accomplished and insightful literary critic. |
| Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature.
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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| Added Title |
Essays. Selections
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| ISBN |
9780735223912 (hardcover) |
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0735223912 (hardcover) |
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