J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the most critically acclaimed bestselling author of imaginative fiction writing in English today. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and is the first writer to have been awarded two Booker Prizes. The present volume makes critical views of this important writ[...]

Mascara delves into the dark terrain of identity and disguise when the lives of three people collide. A nameless man with a face no one remembers has the devastating ability to see and capture on film the brutal truths lurking inside each person he encounters. Oriana, a beautiful woman with the memo[...]

Following on from "Stranger Shores", which contained J M Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999, this work gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005. It discusses writers such as - Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Sandor Marai - who lived through the Austro-Hungarian fin de siecle an[...]

David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, is a scholar fallen into disgrace. After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, he has an impulsive affair with a student. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and r[...]

After crossing oceans, a man and a boy arrive in a new land. Here they are each assigned a name and an age, and held in a camp in the desert while they learn Spanish, the language of their new country. As Simon and David they make their way to the relocation centre in the city of Novilla, where offi[...]

This is a fascinating dialogue on the human inclination to make up stories between a Nobel Prize-winning writer and a psychotherapist. Arabella Kurtz and J M Coetzee consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a concer[...]

This book is about the metanarrative and metafictional elements of J. M. Coetzee's novels. It draws together authorship, readership, ethics, and formal analysis into one overarching argument about how narratives work the boundary between art and life. On the basis of Coetzee's writing, it reconsider[...]

Michael K vandrer gjennom et land i kaos. Det er borgerkrig, men Michael vil ikke ta stilling, ikke bidra med noe til noen kant. Det er hans stille form for opprør.Landet er Sør-Afrika. Et apartheid-styrt land som moralsk og politisk er presset mot kanten av stupet. Hans sørgmodige skikkelse vekk[...]

Den berømte forfatteren John Coetzee er død, og en ung forfatter arbeider med en biografi om Coetzee. Han intervjuer personer som har stått Coetzee nær på 70-tallet, da han bodde i Sør-Afrika, men ikke hadde slått igjennom som forfatter. Ut fra disse samtalene dannes et bilde av en mann som i[...]

En mand og en dreng ankommer til et nyt land efter at have krydset havet. Her bliver de hver tildelt et navn og en alder og interneret i en lejr, mens de lærer spansk, deres nye lands sprog.

Som Simon og David finder de vej til relokaliseringscentret i byen Novilla, hvor bureaukratiet behan[...]