Late Essays

Crossing J.M. Coetzee's range of well-known writerly interests, including Beckett, with essays on Australian writers including Gerald Murnane, Patrick White and Les Murray. The subjects covered range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee's contemporary Philip Roth. Coetzee has had a long-standing interest in German literature and here he engages with the work of Goethe, H�lderlin, Kleist and Walser. There are four fascinating essays on fellow Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett. There are essays too on Tolstoy's great novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich, on Flaubert's masterpiece Madame Bovary, and on the Argentine modernist Antonio Di Benedetto. J.M. Coetzee, a great novelist himself, is a wise and insightful guide to these works of international literature that span three centuries. ES Index : 1 Number of Words in Auth: 2 Formats : EPUB Number of Formats : 1 Has Cover : Yes Test Text Series Index: Essays Single Author : J.M. Coetzee Original Source : Mirc New Files 12-05 Sorted Author by LN, FN: Coetzee, J.M. Title Length : 011 Title Parm D : Late Essays Title Parm F : Late Essays Num of Aut : 1 Title Parm B : ( Record ID : 746 Template Work Area : Essays ES Name : Late Essays Uncomma Author : J.M. Coetzee Title Parm A : Late Essays Stranger Shores, a collection of J.M. Coetzee’s essays from 1986 to 1999,was followed by Inner Workings, which contained those from 2000 to 2005.Late Essays gathers together Coetzee’s literary essays since 2006.The subjects covered range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenthcentury to Coetzee’s contemporary Philip Roth. Coetzee has had alongstanding interest in German literature and here he engages with thework of Goethe, Hölderlin, Kleist and Walser. There are four fascinatingessays on fellow Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett and he looks at the work ofthree Australian writers: Patrick White, Les Murray and Gerald Murnane.There are essays too on Tolstoy’s great novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich, onFlaubert’s masterpiece Madame Bovary, and on the Argentine modernistAntonio Di Benedetto.J.M. Coetzee, a great novelist himself, is a wise and insightful guide tothese works of international literature that span three centuries.