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Squall Lines.('Diary of a Bad Year')(Book review)
There are people who think of J. M. Coetzee as a cold writer, and he might agree, or pretend to agree. "If he were a warmer person he would no doubt find it all easier: life, love, poetry," he writes of himself in his memoir "Youth." "But warmth is not in his nature." The protagonist of Coetzee's new novel, "Diary of a Bad Year" (Viking; $24.95), is, like his creator, an aging South African novelist resident in Australia, who muses at one moment that his father surely thought him a selfish child "who has turned into a cold man." His art, he laments, is "not great-souled." It lacks "generosity, fails to celebrate life, lacks love."
Yet this is the cold air just ...
- State of discontent: J.M. Coetzee's anti-political fiction.(Diary of a Bad...
- Magazine article from: Reason Valdez Moses, Michael July 1, 2008 700+ words
...novel, Diary of a Bad Year, contemplates...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Coetzee's work mixes formal...Similarly, Diary of a Bad Year refuses to recognize...narrative. Indeed, Coetzee suggests that the...suspiciously like Coetzee's own 1996 book...Offense. Diary of a Bad ...
- Antiphonal fiction.(Diary of a Bad Year)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Wheeler, Edward T. April 10, 2009 700+ words
Diary of a Bad Year J. M. Coetzee Viking Penguin...indeed structure Coetzee's novel, Diary of a Bad Year. Novels can be read...addressed in Diary of a Bad Year concerns a celebrated...Always an innovator, Coetzee offers a brilliant...
- Coetzee's NABOKOV'S PALE FIRE AND THE PRIMACY OF ART.(J.M. Coetzee)(Critical...
- Magazine article from: The Explicator Panza, John R. June 22, 1999 700+ words
...defensive posture. In his brief 1974 essay, Coetzee exploits the Romantic idealism of Pale...means of a series of numbered passages, Coetzee explores Nabokov's novel first through...relationship to Beckett's The Unnamable. Coetzee explores Pale Fire's radical artistry...
- J. M. Coetzee and Samuel Beckett: ethics, truth-telling, and self-deception.
- Magazine article from: CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Yeoh, Gilbert June 22, 2003 700+ words
...concerned with truth.--J. M. Coetzee, "Confession and Double Thoughts" Doubling 262 The novels of J. M. Coetzee are increasingly recognized for their...ethics. Yet, what ethics may mean in Coetzee's novels is open to a variety of...
- J. M. Coetzee and the Postcolonial Rhetoric of Simultaneity.
- Magazine article from: International Fiction Review Lin, Lidan January 1, 2001 700+ words
...the Jerusalem Prize (1987), J. M. Coetzee has become one of the most important late...from South Africa, and the reputation Coetzee enjoys is due, in part, to the international...the publication of Dusklands (1974), Coetzee seems to favor what we may call a rhetoric...
- Who killed JM Coetzee?(Life)
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Tribune (South Africa) November 1, 2009 700+ words
Summertime by JM Coetzee Harvill Secker/Random House, 2009...new challenge: Discuss a book by JM Coetzee avoiding words prefixed with post...letter S. The premise of Summertime, JM Coetzee's third fictionalised autobiography...
- The reception of J.M. Coetzee in Russia.
- Magazine article from: Journal of Literary Studies Krzychylkiewicz, Agata December 1, 2005 700+ words
Summary The reception of Coetzee's work in Russia should be interesting...of reasons, not least, because of Coetzee's own interest in Russian literature...detectable in the works of J.M. Coetzee and Russian classics. The affinity...
- J.M. Coetzee's cultural critique.(Currents)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Leusmann, Harald September 1, 2004 700+ words
...of course. But do not forget J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace (1999), this brilliant...the end of the dark twentieth century. Coetzee's protagonists go through the same dilemma...lunatic--is not forthcoming from Coetzee. Instead, he forces his readers to look...
