Review
"'What is a Classic?'... is a marvellous essay, and the book is worth buying for it alone. Coetzee the critic is every bit as good as Coetzee the novelist." -- "Irish Times"
"This is exemplary writing -- balanced, clear, direct and profound." -- "Literary Review"
"Coetzee is one of the greatest writers of our time." -- "Los Angeles Times"
"This is exemplary writing -- balanced, clear, direct and profound." -- "Literary Review"
"Coetzee is one of the greatest writers of our time." -- "Los Angeles Times"
Book Description
A superb collection of essays by an author who has won the Booker Prize twice.
Product Description
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 TS Eliot, JS 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. (20020218)
From the Publisher
A superb collection of essays by an author who has won the Booker Prize twice.
About the Author
Coetzee is a professor of general literature at the University of Cape Town. He has won many literary awards, including the CNA prize, South Africa's premier literary award (three times), the Booker Prize (twice), the Prix -tranger Femina, the Jerusalem Prize, the Lannan Literary Award and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. (20020218)
