Stranger Shores: Literary Essays 1986-1999 - Rilegato

Coetzee, J M

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ISBN 10: 0670899828 ISBN 13: 9780670899821

Casa editrice: Viking, 2001

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An extraordinary anthology of literary essays by the Booker Prize-winning author of In the Heart of the Country presents twenty-six pieces on books and writing, including "What is a Classic?" and studies of Daniel Defoe, Ivan Turgenev, Kafka, Joseph Brodsky, Salman Rushdie, Nadine Gordimer, and other notable authors. 15,000 first printing.

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Stranger Shores, Table of Contents

Contents

one, What is a Classic?: A Lecture, 1

two, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 17

three, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, 23

four, Marcellus Emants, A Posthumous Confession, 34

five, Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven, 39

six, Cees Nooteboom, Novelist and Traveler, 49

seven, William Gass's Rilke, 60

eight, Translating Kafka, 74

nine, Robert Musil's Diaries, 88

ten, Josef Skvorecky, 104

eleven, Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 114

twelve, The Essays of Joseph Brodsky, 127

thirteen, J. L. Borges, Collected Fictions, 139

fourteen, A. S. Byatt, 151

fifteen, Caryl Phillips, 160

sixteen, Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh, 169

seventeen, Aharon Appelfeld, The Iron Tracks, 179

eighteen, Amos Oz, 184

nineteen, Naguib Mahfouz, The Harafish, 191

twenty, The Poems of Thomas Pringle, 203

twenty-one, Daphne Rooke, 208

twenty-two, Gordimer and Turgenev, 219

twenty-three, The Autobiography of Doris Lessing, 232

twenty-four, The Memoirs of Breyten Breytenbach, 249

twenty-five, South African Liberals: Alan Paton, Helen Suzman, 261

twenty-six, No¨el Mostert and the Eastern Cape Frontier, 272

notes, 282

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Book by Coetzee J M

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Viking
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0670899828
• ISBN 13: 9780670899821
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 304