Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 - Rilegato

Coetzee, J.M.

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ISBN 10: 1846550459 ISBN 13: 9781846550454

Casa editrice: Harvill Secker, 2007

Riassunto

Following on from Stranger Shores, which contained J.M. Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999, Inner Workings gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005.

Of the writers discussed in the first half of the book, several - Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Sandor Marai - lived through the Austro-Hungarian fin de siècle and felt the influence of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Freud. Coetzee further explores the work of six of twentieth-century German literature's greatest writers: Robert Musil, Robert Walser, Walter Benjamin (the Arcades Project), Joseph Roth, Gunter Grass, W.G. Sebald, and the poet Paul Celan in his 'wrestlings with the German language'.

There is an essay on Graham Greene's Brighton Rock and on the short fiction of Samuel Beckett, a writer whom Coetzee has long admired. American literature is strongly represented from Walt Whitman, through William Faulkner, Saul Bellow and Arthur Miller to Philip Roth. Coetzee rounds off the collection with essays on three fellow Nobel laureates: Nadine Gordimer, Gabriel García Márquez and V.S. Naipaul.

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Recensione:

"The scale of Coetzee's reading makes most British criticism seem dully provincial." (Andrew Marr Daily Telegraph)

"Coetzee the critic is every bit as good as Coetzee the novelist." (Irish Times)

"This is exemplary writing - balanced, clear, direct and profound." (Literary Review)

L'autore:

J.M. Coetzee’s work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime and The Childhood of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Harvill Secker
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1846550459
• ISBN 13: 9781846550454
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 320