LATE ESSAYS / 2006

Stranger Shores, a collection of J.M. Coetzees essays from 1986 to 1999 was followed by Inner Workings, which contained those from 2000 to 2005. Late Essays gathers together Coetzees literary essays since 2006.The subjects covered range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzees contemporary Philip Roth. Coetzee has had a long-standing interest in German literature and he re he engages with the work of Goethe, Hölderlin, Kleist and Walser. There are four fascinating essays on fellow Nobel laureate Samu el Beckett an...[Llegir més]