J. M. Coetzee and the Limits of the Novel

ISBN-13: 9781009179645 / Twarda / 2023 / 290 str.

John (University of Exeter) Bolin

Opis

This is the first book that reads Coetzee's novels in light of research into his archive of manuscripts and drafts.

Spis treści

1. 'The Africa within': Dusklands, Satire, and Technologized Man; 2. 'The Congeries that I Bless with the Name of Evil': In the Heart of the Country's Sadian Permutations; 3. 'A Question without an Answer': Bafflement and the Surreal in Waiting for the Barbarians; 4. 'A New Kind of Man': Idiocy, Idleness, and Sovereignty in Life & Times of Michael K; 5. 'The Power of Blackness': Foe and the End of the Novel; 6. A Secular 'State of Grace'?: Age of Iron, Angelhood, and the Heterogeneous; 7. 'No Moral Defense': The Master of Petersburg's Escalations; 8. 'Subjugation, Execution, then Devouring': Clarissa, Animals, and Lucy's Final Word in Disgrace.