| Stranger Shores: Literary Essays Contributor(s): Coetzee, J. M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0142001376 ISBN-13: 9780142001370 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2002 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism | Modern - General - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading |
| Dewey: 824.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.34" W x 8.06" (0.58 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. 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. |