J.M. Coetzee and the novel
Subtitle: writing and politics after Beckett
By: by Patrick Hayes
Series: Oxford English monographs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780199587957
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Politics and literature; Theory; Fiction
Description: This book argues that the significance of Coetzee's complex and finely-nuanced fiction lies in the acuity with which it both explores and developes the tradition of the novel - ranging from Cervantes, Defoe, and Richardson, to Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Becket - as part of a sustained attempt to rethink the relationship between writing and politics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-270) and index.