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Summertime

Autor: J.m. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 274

A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his feet as a writer'. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee - a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him, former friends and colleagues. Thus emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward, bookish individual, regarded as an outsider within the family. His insistence on doing manual work, his long hair and beard, and rumours that he writes poetry evoke nothing but suspicion in the South Africa of the time.

J.M. Coetzee: Los imaginarios de la resistencia

Autor: Pablo Lazo Briones

Número de Páginas: 205

En su forma no evidente, las prácticas culturales tienen como trasfondo un imaginario —racista, bélico, imperialista en el peor de los casos— que sólo es posible transformar mediante una disrupción enérgica. Es así como se pone en marcha la hipótesis política y cultural de este libro, en el que los escenarios planteados por J. M. Coetzee en sus novelas son vistos como percutores críticos, disparadores de la acción de resistencia. Con el instrumental de la literatura comparada y de la filosofía política contemporánea, Lazo Briones traza un mapa de interpretación de la obra del Nobel de Literatura 2003 para desvelar la universalidad de su problemática ética y de su compromiso de denuncia, el cual, sin concesiones frente al racismo, la violencia o la hegemonía del poder, busca sus fisuras conceptuales para deconstruirlos. No obstante, lo hace sin transitar por la filosofía meramente teórica o por el panfleto político: del mismo modo en el que las representaciones se han utilizado para exponer un concepto —el carro alado de Platón es un caso—, la crudeza de las imágenes en Coetzee toca al lector en el ámbito más íntimo de su vida y provoca un...

J M Coetzee

Autor: J. C. Kannemeyer

Número de Páginas: 1424

J.M. Coetzee: a life in writing is the first biography of Nobel prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee. A global publishing event of the rarest kind, the book has been written with the full co-operation of Coetzee, who granted the author interviews, and put him in touch with family, friends, and colleagues who could talk about events in Coetzee's life. For the first time, Coetzee allowed complete access to his private papers and documents, including the manuscripts of his sixteen novels. J.C. Kannemeyer has also made a study of the enormous body of literature on Coetzee, and through archival research has unearthed further information not previously available. The books deals in depth with Coetzee's origins, early years, and first writings; his British interlude from 1962–65; his time in America from 1965–71; his 30 years back in South Africa, when he achieved international recognition and won the Booker prize; and his Australian years since 2002, during which time he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. J.M. Coetzee: a life in writing is a major work that corrects many of the misconceptions about Coetzee, and that illuminates the genesis and implications of his novels. This...

J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing

Autor: David Attwell

Número de Páginas: 273

J.M. Coetzee is one of the world's most intriguing authors. Compelling, razor-sharp, erudite: the adjectives pile up but the heart of the fiction remains elusive. Now, in J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing, David Attwell explores the extraordinary creative processes behind Coetzee's novels from Dusklands to The Childhood of Jesus. Using Coetzee's manuscripts, notebooks, and research papers--recently deposited at the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas at Austin--Attwell produces a fascinating story. He shows convincingly that Coetzee's work is strongly autobiographical, the memoirs being continuous with the fictions, and that his writing proceeds with never-ending self-reflection. Having worked closely with him on Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews and given early access to Coetzee's archive, David Attwell is an engaging, authoritative source. J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing is a fresh, fascinating take on one of the most important and opaque literary figures of our time. This moving account will change the way Coetzee is read, by teachers, critics, and general readers.

J.M. Coetzee contra la censura y la barbarie (Magis 452)

Autor: Juan Carlos Núñez Bustillos , Priscila Hernández Flores , Sofía Rodríguez , José Israel Carranza , Israel Piña , Jorge Esquinca , Rogelio Villarreal , Karina Osorno , Enrique González , Alberto Chimal , Luis Orlando Pérez Jiménez , Enrique Blanc , Lizeth Arámbula , José Luis Sandoval Encarnación , Hugo Hernández Valdivia , Kaliope Demerutis

En abril de 2016, el novelista sudafricano J. M. Coetzee fue distinguido por el Sistema Universitario Jesuita con el otorgamiento del Doctorado Honoris Causa. Entre las razones que consideraron para ello destacó el hecho de que su obra, ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2003, puede leerse como una sostenida crítica a las causas de que el ser humano llegue a condiciones extremas de miseria, odio, dolor y miedo. La presente edición de Magis aborda, además de su perfil, otro tema que, de modo apremiante, también debe concernirnos: la violencia sistemática contra las mujeres en nuestro país. En entrevista, la investigadora Julia Monárrez Fragoso observa las formas en que la sociedad mexicana está percibiendo esta situación, y señala que el gobierno no considera como prioridad los derechos de las mujeres, lo cual es una de las causas de que esta violencia esté normalizándose, como ha podido verse en casos recientes de agresiones que quedan impunes. (Magis) (ITESO)

J.M. Coetzee

Autor: John Christoffel Kannemeyer

This is the first biography of Nobel prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee. The book deals in depth with Coetzee's origins, early years, and first writings. It discusses his British interlude from 1962-65; his time in America from 1965-71; his 30 years back in South Africa, when he achieved international recognition and won the Booker prize; and his Australian years since 2002, during which time he won the Nobel Prize.

On J. M. Coetzee

Autor: Ceridwen Dovey

Número de Páginas: 96

‘I was born in the year J.M. Coetzee published his third novel, Waiting for the Barbarians. My mother read this dark, disturbing book with its multiple scenes of torture as she breastfed me at night, while my older sister slept and the house was quiet. It was 1980. The apartheid government had declared a state of emergency in the face of growing internal revolt, and my parents were thinking of leaving South Africa again.’ For Ceridwen Dovey, J.M. Coetzee has ‘always been there’, ‘challenging the rest of us to keep up, resisting our attempts to pin him down.’ Her mother wrote the first critical study of Coetzee’s early novels, uncovering their startlingly original ways of bringing together literature and politics. With tenderness and insight, Dovey draws on this family history to explore the Nobel Prize–winner’s work.

El polaco

Número de Páginas: 0

J. M. Coetzee and the Power of Narrative

Número de Páginas: 230

Scenes from Provincial Life

Autor: J.m. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 500

Scenes from Provincial Life brings together, in one volume, J.M. Coetzee’s majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir, Boyhood, Youth and Summertime It opens in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s. We meet a young boy who, at home, is ill at ease with his father and stifled by his mother’s unconditional love. At school he passes every test that is set for him, but he remains wary of his fellow pupils. Later, as a student of mathematics in Cape Town he prepares to escape to Europe and turn himself into an artist. Once in London, however, the reality is dispiriting. Decades on, an English biographer researches a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. As he interviews important figures in Coetzee’s life, a portrait emerges of an awkward outsider who – even after death – remains dogged by rumours.

In The Heart Of The Country

Autor: J.m. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 176

Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousness starts to drift and the line between fact and the workings of her excited imagination becomes blurred. What follows is the fable of a woman's passionate, obsessed and violent response to an Africa that will not heed her.

Foe

Autor: J. M. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 160

With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe—and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. In 1720 the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe is approached by Susan Barton, lately a castaway on a desert island. She wants him to tell her story, and that of the enigmatic man who has become her rescuer, companion, master and sometimes lover: Cruso. Cruso is dead, and his manservant, Friday, is incapable of speech. As she tries to relate the truth about him, the ambitious Barton cannot help turning Cruso into her invention. For as narrated by Foe—as by Coetzee himself—the stories we thought we knew acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly moving.

Coetzee y los niños escritores

Autor: John Maxwell Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 91

¿Habrá algo más inspirador para un pequeño aspirante a escritor que tener el privilegio de conocer a un Premio Nobel de Literatura? El presente libro contiene una selección de cuentos del concurso “John Maxwell Coetzee” creado en el marco del ciclo La Ciudad y las Palabras del Doctorado de Arquitectura de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y que desde el año 2015 ha congregado a miles de estudiantes de colegios privados, subvencionados y municipales de todo Chile. El libro contiene cuatro presentaciones de John Coetzee, Premio Nobel de Literatura 2003, que nos hablan de Chile, de su tierra, de su gente y de sus niños. La relación entre el insigne escritor y estos pequeños aprendices hacen de este pequeño libro un tributo a la capacidad de la literatura para superar barreras y desafiar al destino.

Master Of Petersburg

Autor: J.m. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 256

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2003 In The Master of Petersburg J. M. Coetzee dares to imagine the life of Dostoevsky. Set in 1869, when Dostoevsky was summoned from Germany to St Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, this novel is at once a compelling mystery steeped in the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia and a brilliant and courageous meditation on authority and rebellion, art and imagination. Dostoevsky is seen obsessively following his stepson's ghost, trying to ascertain whether he was a suicide or a murder victim and whether he loved or despised his stepfather.

The Pole: A Novel

Autor: J. M. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 122

One of Vanity Fair's "Best Books of the Fall" From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace, a psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about love and the mutability of human relationships. Renowned for his sparse yet powerful prose, J. M. Coetzee is unquestionably among the most influential—and provocative—authors of our time. With characteristic insight and a “brittle wit that forces our attention on the common terrors we don’t want to think about” (Washington Post), Coetzee here challenges us to interrogate our preconceptions not only of love, but of truth itself. Exacting yet unpredictable, pithy yet complex, Coetzee’s The Pole tells the story of Wittold Walccyzkiecz, a vigorous, extravagantly white-haired pianist and interpreter of Chopin who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his concert in Barcelona. Although Beatriz, a married woman, is initially unimpressed by Wittold and his “gleaming dentures,” she soon finds herself pursued and ineluctably swept into his world. As the journeyman performer sends her countless letters, extends invitations to travel, and even visits her husband’s summer...

Acts of Visitation

Autor: María J. López , María Jesús López Sánchez-vizcaíno

Número de Páginas: 362

Preliminary Material -- Critical Appropriations and Hermeneutic Resistance -- Penetration: Dusklands and In the Heart of the Country -- Resistance: Waiting for the Barbarians -- Parasitism: Life and Times of Michael K and Age of Iron -- Visitation: Disgrace -- Secrecy: Foe -- (Un)belonging: Boyhood, Youth, and Summertime -- Intrusion: The Master of Petersburg and Slow Man -- Fidelities: Elizabeth Costello and Diary of a Bad Year -- Works Cited -- Index.

Secretary of the Invisible

Autor: Mike Marais

Número de Páginas: 267

How do individuals, who are part of a community, respond to the stranger as a stranger: i.e. without simply positioning this outsider in opposition to the community in which they are located? How may individuals receive something unknown and therefore surprising into their world without compromising it by identifying it in the terms of that world? In this study, Mike Marais traces the various ways in which Coetzee's fiction, from Dusklands through to Slow Man, repeatedly poses such questions of hospitality. It is shown that the form of ethical action staged in Coetzee's writing is grounded not in the individual's willed and rational achievement, but in his or her invasion and possession by the strangeness of the stranger. This ethic of hospitality, Marais argues, has a strong aesthetic dimension: for Coetzee, the writer is inspired to write by being acted upon by a force from beyond the phenomenal world. The writer is a secretary of the invisible. She or he is responsible to and for the invisible. Marais maintains that this understanding of writing as an involuntary response to that which exceeds history is evident from the first in Coetzee's fiction. In readings of the novels of...

Life and Times of Michael K

Autor: J.m. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 194

In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and Times of Michael K goes to the centre of human experience - the need for an interior, spiritual life, for some connections to the world in which we live, and for purity of vision. 'This is a truly astonishing novel... I finished Life & Times of Michael K in a state of elation, for all the misery and suffering it contains. I cannot recommend it highly enough' Evening Standard

J.M. Coetzee's Austerities

Autor: Graham Bradshaw , Michael Neill

Número de Páginas: 286

Representing a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this volume seeks to align the South African dimension of Coetzee's writing with his late modernist aesthetic. It includes essays exploring the relationship between Coetzee's novels and

The Pole and Other Stories

Autor: J.m. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 151

A pianist falls grandly, helplessly in love in this elegant new novella from the twice-Booker Prize winner The Pole tells the story of Witold Walczykiewicz, a vigorous, white-haired pianist, who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his Barcelona concert. Although Beatriz, who is married, is initially unimpressed by Wittold, she soon finds herself pursued and ineluctably swept into his world. As he sends her letters, extends countless invitations to travel, and even visits her husband's summer home in Mallorca, their unlikely relationship blossoms, though only on her terms. As the power struggle between them intensifies -- Is it Beatriz who limits their passion by controlling her emotions? Or is it Witold, trying to force into life his dream of love? Evocative of Joyce's 'The Dead,' The Pole is a haunting work, evoking the 'inexhaustible palette of sensations, from blind love to compassion' (El País) typical of Coetzee's finest novels. Published together with five exceptional stories, this new work from one of our greatest writers is a must for all literary connoisseurs.

In the Middle of Nowhere

Autor: Jonathan Crewe

Número de Páginas: 125

Relying on the author's personal recollections as well as on J.M. Coetzee's autobiographical and fictional works, this book deals with Coetzee's formation as a writer of international prominence, whose life and writing career began in South Africa. Drawing on Coetzee's "South African" writings from Dusklands through Disgrace, the book considers Coetzee's initial positioning in provincial South African political and literary culture as well as his drastic reframing of South African "letters" and his breakout into a global career culminating in the award of the Nobel Prize in 2003. The book considers Coetzee almost exclusively in relation to the South Africa from which he emigrated in 1999, but also emphasizes his momentous revision and undoing of the marginalized genre of "South African Literature" in the service of global authorship. Written in the conviction that Coetzee's "South African" works remain his most impassioned and momentous ones, this book seeks to come to terms with their conditions of possibility and distinctive achievement.

Doubling the Point

Autor: J. M. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 452

Nadine Gordimer has written of J.M. Coetzee that his vision goes to the nerve-centre of being. What he finds there is more than most people will ever know about themselves, and he conveys it with a brilliant writer's mastery of tension and elegance. Doubling the Point takes the reader to the center of that vision. These essays and interviews, documenting Coetzee's longtime engagement with his own culture, and with modern culture in general, constitute a literary autobiography.

Summertime

Autor: J. M. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 0

"Not since Disgrace, has he written with such urgency and feeling." -The New Yorker J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee's new book follows a young biographer as he works on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. The biographer embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee during the period when he was "finding his feet as a writer"-in his thirties and sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. Their testimonies create an image of an awkward, reserved, and bookish young man who finds it difficult to connect with the people around him. An innovative and inspired work of fiction-incisive, elegant, and often surprisingly funny- Summertime allows one of the most revered writers of our time to imagine his own life with a critical and unsparing eye.

Premios Nobel de literatura

Autor: Laura Vaccaro

Número de Páginas: 528

Hasta ahora no existía ningún libro escrito por un especialista que hiciera un análisis crítico global de los escritores galardonados con el Premio Nobel, existiendo sólo información enciclopédica superficial y mayoritariamente procedente de fuentes oficiales, lo que bloquea la posibilidad de una mirada crítica del conjunto.

Stranger Shores

Autor: J.m. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 386

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. His subjects range from eighteenth and nineteenth century writers Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Ivan Turgenev, to the great German modernists Rilke, Kafka, and Musil, to the giants of late twentieth century literature, among them Harry Mulisch, Joseph Brodsky, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Amos Oz, Naguib Mahfouz, Nadine Gordimer and Doris Lessing.

A Book of Friends

Autor: Dorothy Driver

Número de Páginas: 253

A landmark collection of works by acclaimed international and Australian authors appearing in honour of J. M. Coetzee’s eightieth birthday

Youth

Autor: J. M. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 0

Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art. Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Instead he succumbs to the monotony of life as a computer programmer, from which random, loveless affairs offer no relief. Devoid of inspiration, he stops writing and begins a dark pilgrimage in which he is continually tested and continually found wanting. Set against the background of the 1960s, Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness turning in on itself. J. M. Coetzee explores a young man's struggle to find his way in the world with tenderness and a fierce clarity.

Disgrace

Autor: J. M. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 232

After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated farm. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonize his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faults in their relationship. Chilling, uncompromising and unforgettable, Disgrace is a masterpiece. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Slow Man

Autor: J. M. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 280

Relationships. Contemporary classic.

El valor del arte

Autor: María José Alcaraz León , Matilde Carrasco , Jordi Ibáñez , Mikel Iriondo , Salvador Rubio , Gerard Vilar

Número de Páginas: 270

Los ensayos recogidos en el presente volumen reflexionan sobre el valor del arte desde diferentes perspectivas. En primer lugar, se interrogan sobre la existencia de un valor específico del trabajo artístico y las obras de arte. En particular, algunos textos abordan la cuestión central del valor estético y de su conexión con la interpretación, la apreciación y el juicio de las obras de arte. En segundo lugar, ocupa un espacio central del libro el análisis de la relación entre el estético y otros valores que apreciamos en las obras de arte, como el valor documental, el histórico, el epistémico o el moral. Por último, la literatura, el cine o las artes plásticas son analizados desde el punto de vista del modo particular de dar sentido y articular en cada caso una concepción valiosa del mundo.

Summertime

Autor: J. M. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 311

A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 1972-1977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, is sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. This, the biographer senses, is the period when he was 'finding his feet as a writer'. Never having met Coetzee, he embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to him.

Desgracia

Autor: John Maxwell Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 272

A los cincuenta y dos años, David Lurie tiene poco de lo que enorgullecerse. Con dos divorcios a sus espaldas, apaciguar el deseo es su única aspiración; sus clases en la universidad son un mero trámite para él y para los estudiantes. Cuando se destapa su relación con una alumna, David, en un acto de soberbia, preferirá renunciar a su puesto antes que disculparse en público. Rechazado por todos, abandona Ciudad del Cabo y va a visitar la granja de su hija Lucy...Allí, en una sociedad donde los códigos de comportamiento, sean de blancos o de negros, han cambiado; donde el idioma es una herramienta viciada que no sirve a este mundo naciente, David verá hacerse añicos todas sus creencias en una tarde de violencia implacable...Una historia profunda, extraordinaria, que por momentos atenaza el corazón, y siempre, hasta el final, subyugante: Desgracia, la última novela de J. M. Coetzee, no dejará indiferente al lector.

Three Stories

Autor: J. M. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 81

As he gets older he finds himself growing more and more crabby about language, about slack usage, falling standards. Falling in love, for instance. 'We fell in love with the house', friends of his say. How can you fall in love with a house when the house cannot love you back, he wants to reply? Once you start falling in love with objects, what will be left of real love, love as it used to be? But no one seems to care. People fall in love with tapestries, with old cars. A man contemplates his deep connection to a house. The unfathomable idea of threshing wheat points to a life lost. And a writer ponders the creation of his narrator. Three Stories—'His Man and He’, written as Coetzee’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, ‘A House in Spain’ and ‘Nietverloren’—is the work of a master at his peak. These are stories that embody the essence of our existence.

Elizabeth Costello

Autor: J. M. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 314

In his first work of fiction since his Nobel Prize-winning "Disgrace," this "New York Times" Notable Book and bestseller is the story of a woman's life as a mother, sister, lover, and writer that is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling.

Boyhood

Autor: J. M. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 0

In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both adored and resented, he picked his way through a world that refused to explain its rules, but whose rules he knew he must obey. Steering between these contradictions, Boyhood evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy. Coetzee examines his young self with the dispassionate curiosity of an explorer rediscovering his own early footprints, and the account of his progress is bright, hard and simply compelling.

J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace

Autor: Andrew Van Der Vlies

Número de Páginas: 122

One of the most widely read novels by a South African-born writer or 'about' South Africa, Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee's (second) Booker Prize-winning novel, Disgrace (1999), is a firm favourite with reading groups and a fixture on many university-level courses on postcolonial or international literatures in English. Sometimes regarded as offering a bleak picture of post-apartheid South Africa, Disgrace has also been read as an ultimately hopeful novel about renunciation and redemption. This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. It provides a discussion of the novel's critical and popular reception, a comprehensive guide to further reading, and questions for discussion.

Life & Times of Michael K

Autor: J. M. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 200

In a South Africa turned by war, Michael K. sets out to take his ailing mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. This life affirming novel goes to the center of human experience-the need for an interior, spiritual life; for some connections to the world in which we live; and for purity of vision.

Juventud

Autor: J.m. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 191

Juventud es la segunda parte de las memorias del Premio Nobel de Literatura, J.M. Coetzee, que se completan con Infancia y Verano. En Juventud, la segunda parte de las memorias noveladas del premio Nobel de Literatura J.M. Coetzee, el narrador, un estudiante en la Sudáfrica de los años cincuenta, lleva tiempo planeando escapar de su país natal: del sofocante amor de su madre, de un padre cuyos errores lo persiguen y de lo que parece ser una revolución inminente. Estudiando matemáticas, leyendo poesía y ahorrando dinero intenta asegurarse de que, cuando se enfrente a las vicisitudes del mundo real, sea eso lo que sea, estará preparado para experimentarlas con una intensidad total y para transformarlas en arte verdadero. Una vez en Londres, sin embargo, lo que se encuentra no es ni poesía ni bohemia. Más bien al contrario: sucumbe a la monotonía de una vida como programador informático, en la cual las aventuras esporádicas y carentes de amor no ofrecen consuelo alguno. Lejos de encontrar la inspiración, deja de escribir. La crítica ha dicho: «La visión de Coetzee alcanza el centro neurológico del ser. Lo que él halla ahí es más de lo que la mayoría de personas...

Youth

Autor: J. M. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 0

J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. The second installment of J. M. Coetzee's fictionalized "memoir" explores a young man's struggle to experience life to its full intensity and transform it into art. The narrator of Youth has long been plotting an escape-from the stifling love of his overbearing mother, a father whose failures haunt him, and what he is sure is impending revolution in his native country of South Africa. Arriving at last in London in the 1960s, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance and instead begins a dark pilgrimage into adulthood. Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness, isolated and adrift, turning in on itself, of a young man struggling to find his way in the world, written with tenderness and a fierce clarity.

Elizabeth Costello

Autor: J. M. Coetzee

Número de Páginas: 248

Elizabeth Costello is a humane, moral, and uncompromising creation. The subject of J.M. Coetzee's latest work of fiction is an Australian writer of international renown -- feted, studied and honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from which, it seems, she will never escape, she has reached the stage, late in life, where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. One of a new breed of intellectual nomads, her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world -- a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public: the presentation of a major award at an American college where she is required to deliver a lecture; a sojourn as the writer-in-residence on a cruise liner during which she encounters a fellow guest lecturer, an African poet also employed to divert the passengers. Then there is a disquieting appearance at a writers' conference in Amsterdam where she finds the subject of her talk unexpectedly among the audience. She has made her life's work the study of other people, yet now it is she who is the object of scrutiny. But, for her, what matters is the continuing...