Stranger shores
literary essays, 1986-1999
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Word Count
73,750 words, Guess
Page Count
295 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivestrangershoresli00jmco
- ISBN-100670899828
- ISBN-139780670899821
- LibraryThing403
- Goodreads434287
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- Library of Congress Control Number2001273880
- OCLC Control Number47856069
- Better World Books9780670899821
- Open LibraryOL3967834M
Classifications
- DDC824/.914
- LCCPR9369.3.C58 S77 2001
- LCCPR9369.3.C58S77 2001
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- LCCPR 9369.3 C58 S77 2001
Description
"The only author ever to win the Booker Prize twice, J. M. Coetzee is one of the world's greatest novelists. Now his many admirers can have the pleasure of reading his significant body of literary criticism. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-six pieces on books and writing. 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 T. S. Eliot, Johann Sebastian Bach and Zbigniew Herbert. His subjects range from the great 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Stranger shores: literary essays, 1986-1999
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