Stranger Shores
Essays 1986-1999
$47.12
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2002
Summary
J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world’s greatest novelists. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa.
Stranger Shores opens with “What is a Classic?” in which Coetzee explores the answer to his own question - “What does it mean in living terms to say that the classic is what survives?” - by way of T. S. Eliot, J. S. Bach and Zbigniew Herbert.
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099422624 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009942262X |
| Author: | J.M. Coetzee |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2002 |
| Weight: | 266g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
The scale of Coetzee’s reading makes most British criticism seem dully provincial – Andrew Marr * Daily Telegraph *To read him on Kafka and on the deficiencies of the English translation of the work is to be put in touch with criticism at its most attentive and creative * Irish Indepedent *This is exemplary writing - balanced, clear, direct and profound * Literary Review *‘What is a Classic?’…is a marvellous essay, and the book is worth buying for it alone. Coetzee the critic is every bit as good as Coetzee the novelist * Irish Times *
About The Author
J.M. Coetzee
J.M. Coetzee is a professor of general literature at the University of Cape Town. He has won many literary awards, including the CNA prize, South Africa’s premier literary award (three times), the Booker Prize (twice), the Prix -tranger Femina, the Jerusalem Prize, the Lannan Literary Award and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.
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