J. M. Coetzee, Author . Viking $21.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-670-03130-6
Even more uncompromising than usual, this latest novel by Coetzee (his first since 1999's Booker Prize–winning Disgrace) blurs the bounds of fiction and nonfiction while furthering the author's exploration of urgent moral and...
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J.M. Coetzee. Viking, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-01465-1
In this captivating and provocative new novel, a small boy who has been renamed David, and Simón, the man who has become David’s caretaker since David was separated from his mother, have immigrated to a nameless country. Simón soon finds work on the
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J. M. Coetzee, Author Viking Books $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-85587-2
Writing from inside the head of another writer is always a hazardous undertaking; when the subject is Fyodor Dostoyevski, the audacity is breathtaking. But that is what Coetzee (Waiting for the Barbarians; The Life & Times of Michael K) dares here,...
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J. M. Coetzee, Author Random House (NY) $18.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-394-58859-9
Harsh, unflinching and powerful, Coetzee's ( Waiting for the Barbarians ) new novel is a cry of moral outrage at the legacy that apartheid has created in South Africa. In scenes of stunning ferocity, he depicts the unequal warfare waging between the
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J. M. Coetzee, Author Viking Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-81398-8
Imaginatively conceived and richly orchestrated, this slim novel by the author of Waiting for the Barbarians is at once a variant of the immortal Robinson Crusoe and a complex parable of art and life. Englishwoman Susan Barton, having been cast away
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J. M. Coetzee, Author Viking Books $24.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-670-89982-1
Tackling works by Rushdie, Naguib Mahfouz, Doris Lessing, Borges and A.S. Byatt, Stranger Shores: Literary Essays collects critical work by South African author and two-time Booker-winner J.M. Coetzee. Coetzee posits in ""What Is a Classic"" that
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J. M. Coetzee, Author Viking Books $23.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-670-88731-6
As a writer, Coetzee is a literary cascade, with a steady output of fiction and criticism (literary and social) over the last two decades. This latest book, his first novel in five years, is a searing evocation of post-apartheid South Africa; it...
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J. M. Coetzee, Author Viking Books $22.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-87220-6
""He thinks of Afrikaners as people in a rage all the time because their hearts are hurt. He thinks of the English as people who have not fallen into a rage because they live behind walls and guard their hearts well."" The ""he"" in this bitter,...
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J. M. Coetzee, Author Vintage Books USA $12 (198p) ISBN 978-0-679-73292-1
A retired South African professor's letters to her daughter in America, telling both of her terminal cancer and of her country's afflictions, constitute a novel that moves with the implacability of a nightmare. (June)
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J. M. Coetzee, Author University of Chicago Press $17 (297p) ISBN 978-0-226-11176-6
The South African writer teases out the implications of cases like Osip Mandelstam's ode to Stalin and Catharine MacKinnon's anti-pornography crusades. (Oct.)
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J. M. Coetzee, Author University of Chicago Press $24.95 (297p) ISBN 978-0-226-11174-2
In South African novelist Coetzee's intriguing theory, censorship arises out of a paranoid mentality when a dominant class, church or state, lashing out in fear from a sense of latent powerlessness, suppresses a writer or artist whose truth-telling...
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J. M. Coetzee, Author Penguin Books $15 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-023810-5
South African novelist Coetzee takes Fyodor Dostoyevski as his protagonist in a novel set amidst the political ferment of 19th-century Russia. (Nov.)
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J. M. Coetzee, Author Penguin Books $14 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-009623-1
This slim novel by the author of Waiting for the Barbarians is both a variant of Robinson Crusoe and a complex parable of art and life. PW noted that the characters' relationships are ""an allegory of the evil social order that poisons the author's...
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J. M. Coetzee, Author . Viking $25.95 (266p) ISBN 978-0-670-02138-3
Nobel laureate and two-time Booker-winner Coetzee has been shortlisted for the third time for this powerful novel, a semisequel to the fictionalized memoirs Boyhood
and Youth
that takes the form of a young biographer's interviews with...
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J. M. Coetzee, Author . Viking $24.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-670-01875-8
Nobelist Coetzee's 19th book features a stand-in for himself: Señor C, a white 72-year-old South African writer living in Australia who has written Waiting for the Barbarians
. C falls into a “metaphysical” passion for his...
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J. M. Coetzee, Author . Viking $24.95 (263p) ISBN 978-0-670-03459-8
Nobel-winner Coetzee (Disgrace
) ponders life, love and the mind/ body connection in his latest heavy-hitter; he also plays a little trick. When retired photographer Paul Rayment loses his leg in a bicycle accident, his lengthy, lonely recuperation...
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J. M. Coetzee, Author . Viking $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-03102-3
One need not have read Boyhood, Coetzee's previous autobiographical account, to appreciate this sequel, as he continues to look back on his quest for identity and a yearned-for vocation as a poet. Written from a third-person, present-tense point
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J. M. Coetzee, Author, Amu Gutmann, Author, Amy Gutmann, Editor Princeton University Press $31.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-691-00443-3
The audience of the 1997-98 Tanner Lectures at Princeton probably expected South African novelist Coetzee to deliver a pair of formal essays similar to those on censorship he presented in Giving Offence. Instead, he gave his listeners fiction: a...
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J.M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz. Viking, $27.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-525-42951-7
In a series of conversations, recorded between 2011 and 2014, that vary from lively and engaging to staid and tiresome, author Coetzee and his friend, psychotherapist Kurtz, discuss the nature of fiction and truth. Their overriding concerns include...
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