Late essays, 2006-2017
By: J.M. Coetzee
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780735223912
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Literature; History and criticism
Work titles: Essays
Description: A provocative collection of 23 pieces showcases the writings of the Nobel Prize-winning author as he examines the work of some of the world's greatest writers, including Daniel Defoe, Samuel Beckett, Irene Nemirovsky and Goethe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-294).
Table of contents: title: Daniel Defoe, Roxana --; title: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The scarlet letter --; title: Ford Madox Ford, The good soldier --; title: Philip Roth's tale of the plague --; title: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The sorrows of young Werther --; title: Translating Hölderlin --; title: Heinrich von Kleist : two stories --; title: Robert Walser, The assistant --; title: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary --; title: Irène Némirovsky, Jewish writer --; title: Juan Ramón Jiménez, Platero and I --; title: Antonio Di Benedetto, Zama --; title: Leo Tolstoy, The death of Ivan Ilyich --; title: On Zbigniew Herbert --; title: The young Samuel Beckett --; title: Samuel Beckett, Watt --; title: Samuel Beckett, Molloy --; title: Eight ways of looking at Samuel Beckett --; title: Late Patrick White --; title: Patrick White, The solid mandala --; title: The poetry of Les Murray --; title: Reading Gerald Murnane --; title: The diary of Hendrik Witbooi.