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J.M. Coetzee and the life of writing : face-to-face with time

Attwell, David, author

2015

Overview

\"J.M. Coetzee is one of the most intriguing of authors in all of world literature. Now, in J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing, David Attwell illuminates the extraordinary creative processes behind Coetzee's novels from Dusklands to The Childhood of Jesus. Using Coetzee's manuscripts, notebooks and research papers - recently deposited at the Ransom Center of the University of Texas at Austin - Attwell produces a fascinating story of the creative trajectory and the life out of which the fiction was engendered. He shows convincingly that all of Coetzee's work is autobiographical, the memoirs being continuous with the fictions, and that his writing proceeds with self-conscious and never-ending reflection. This is a moving and readable account which is bound to change the way Coetzee is read, by the critics and general reader alike.\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Viking
• Subject: Coetzee, J. M., 1940- / Coetzee, J. M., 1940- Authorship. / Coetzee, J. M., 1940- Criticism and interpretation. / Authors, South African 20th century Biography. / Biography in literature.
• ISBN: 9780525429616, 0525429611

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR9369.3.C58 Z634 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE