The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 2003: Lecture and Speech of Acceptance upon the Award of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Delivered in Stockholm in December 2003 - Rilegato

Coetzee, J. M.

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ISBN 10: 0143034537 ISBN 13: 9780143034537

Casa editrice: Penguin Group USA, 2004

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In his acceptance speech for the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, the renowned author shares a provocative short story, "He and the Man," in which he features Robinson Crusoe, following his return from his long island exile, as he reflects on the themes of death, spectacle, writing, allegory, solitude, and sociability while contemplating the person who writes of and for him.

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Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, John Michael Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in literature. In 1972 he returned to South Africa and joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town. His works of fiction include Dusklands, Waiting for the Barbarians, which won South Africa’s highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Literary Award, and theLife and Times of Michael K., for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983. He has also published a memoir,Boyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life, and several essays collections. He has won many other literary prizes including the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize and TheIrish Times International Fiction Prize. In 1999 he again won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize forDisgrace, becoming the first author to win the award twice in its 31-year history. In 2003, Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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• Editore: Penguin Group USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0143034537
• ISBN 13: 9780143034537
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 26