J.M. Coetzee: Fictions of the Real

ISBN-13: 9781138721777 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 170 str.

Anthony Uhlmann

Opis

J.M. Coetzee has new things to say about this relation between the ‘real’ and ‘fictions of the real’, and the central problems he deals with in his fiction are of the kind that confront people everywhere. This collection considers the question of understanding itself in Coetzee’s work, and how it is central to our conception of the world.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. In quest of ‘other modes of being’: J.M. Coetzee’s ontological inquiries  2. Dusklands and the meaning of method  3. The violence of forgetting: trauma and transnationalism in Coetzee’s Dusklands  4. Reading between life and work: reflections on ‘J.M. Coetzee’  5. Coetzee & co: failure, lies and autobiography  6. The trial of David Lurie: Kafka’s courtroom in Coetzee’s Disgrace  7. Insects, worlds, and the poetic in Coetzee’s writing  8. On (not) giving up: animals, biopolitics, and the impersonal in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace

O autorze

Anthony Uhlmann is Director of the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the author of Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image (2006), Beckett and Poststructuralism (2008), and Thinking in Literature: Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov (2011). He is currently completing a book on J. M. Coetzee.