Coetzee, J. M.
Summary: A new collection of twenty-two literary essays from the Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee J.M. Coetzee is not only one of the most acclaimed fiction writers in the world, he is also an accomplished and insightful literary critic. In Late Essays, a thought-provoking collection of twenty-two pieces, he examines the work of some of the world's greatest writers-from Daniel Defoe and Samuel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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Summary: "A provocative collection of 23 pieces showcases the writings of the Nobel Prize-winning author as he examines the work of some of the world's greatest writers, including Daniel Defoe, Samuel Beckett, Irene Nemirovsky and Goethe." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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Summary: In Estrella, David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old who is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father Simon and Bolivar the dog usually watch while his mother Ines now works in a fashion boutique. David still asks many questions, challenging his parents, and any authority figure in his life. In dancing class at the Academy of Music he dances as he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: J.M. Coetzee uses fiction to present a discussion of animal rights in all their complexity. He draws us into his character's own sense of mortality, her compassion for animals, and her alienation from humans, even from her own family. In his fable, presented as a Tanner Lecture sponsored by the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, Coetzee immerses us in a drama reflecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2001
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Summary: From the Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, the haunting sequel to The Childhood of Jesus, continuing the journey of David, Simon, and Ines When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. There is no history. The boat docks at the harbour and we climb down the gangplank and we are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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Summary: Mrs. Cullen, the narrator in this novel, is an elderly white woman dying of cancer in a country afflicted with its own mortal sickness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1990
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Summary: "A major new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for the Barbarians, The Life & Times of Michael K and Disgrace Nobel laureate and two-time Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee returns with a haunting and surprising novel about childhood and destiny that is sure to rank with his classic novels. Separated from his mother as a passenger on a boat bound for a new land, David is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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Contents: What is a classic?: a lecture -- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe -- Samuel Richardson, Clarissa -- Marcellus Emants, A posthumous confession -- Harry Mulisch, The discovery of heaven -- Cees Nooteboom, novelist and traveler -- William Gass's Rilke -- Translating Kafka -- Robert Musil's Diaries -- Josef Skvorecky -- Dostoevsky: The miraculous years -- The essays of Joseph Brodsky -- J.L. Borges,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2002
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Summary: In this autobiographical novel, a young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father--a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: A magistrate in a country village protests the army's treatment of members of the barbarian tribes taken prisoner during a civil war and finds himself arrested as a traito.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COESummary: The Magistrate of an isolated frontier settlement on the border of an unnamed empire looks forward to an easy retirement until the arrival of Colonel Joll, whose task it is to report on the activities of the "barbarians" and the security situation on the border. Joll conducts a series of ruthless interrogations, which leads the Magistrate to question his loyalty to the empire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WaSummary: Though the Netherlands has been the site of vigorous literary activity since at least the poets of the Beweging van Vijftig (Movement of the Fifties), the status of Dutch as a "minor" language spoken by only fifteen million people has kept its rich poetry more or less a secret. This volume--featuring J. M. Coetzee's finely wrought English translations side-by-side with the originals--brings the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2004