Stranger Shores: Literary Essays - Softcover

Coetzee, J. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142001376 ISBN 13: 9780142001370

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2002

Synopsis

J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. 

Two-time Booker Prize-winner J. M. Coetzee is one of the world's greatest novelists. This thought-provoking collection gathers twenty-six of his essays on books and writing. In his opening piece, "What Is a Classic?", Coetzee asks, "What does it mean in living terms to say that the classic is what survives?" He explores the answer by way of T. S. Eliot, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Zbigniew Herbert. Coetzee goes on to discuss eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors such as Defoe and Turgenev, the German modernists such as Rilke, Kafka, and Musil, and the giants of late-twentieth-century literature, among them Brodsky, Gordimer, Rushdie, and Lessing.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

A superb collection of essays by one of the world?s great 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. The subjects range from the great 18th- and 19th-century writers Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Ivan Turgenev, to the great German modernists Rilke, Kafka and Musil, to the giants of late 20th-century literature, among them Harry Mulisch, Joseph Brodsky, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Amos Oz, Naguib Mahfouz, Nadine Gordimer and Doris Lessing.

From the Back Cover:

“Coetzee is one of the greatest writers of our time.” – Los Angeles Times

“One of the the best novelists alive.” – Sunday Times

“J.M. Coetzee’s vision goes to the nerve-centre of being. What he finds there is more than most people will ever know about themselves.” – Nadine Gordimer

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0142001376
• ISBN 13: 9780142001370
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304