J M Coetzee and the Life of Writing Face to face with Time by David Attwell ISBN 0143128817 978-0143128816

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ISBN 10: 0143128817 

ISBN 13: 978-0143128816

Author: David Attwell

 J. M. Coetzee is one of the most renowned yet elusive authors of our time. Now, in J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing, David Attwell explores the extraordinary creative process behind Coetzee’s work, from Dusklands to The Childhood of Jesus. Drawing on Coetzee’s manuscripts, notebooks and research papers housed at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Attwell reveals the fascinating ways in which Coetzee’s famous novels developed, sometimes through more than fifteen drafts. He convincingly shows that Coetzee’s work is strongly autobiographical, and that his writing proceeds with never-ending self-reflection while it moves toward aesthetic detachment. Above all, Attwell argues, South Africa, with its history, language, landscape and conflicts, is much more present in his novels than we have realized. 
 
Having worked closely with Coetzee on Doubling the Point, a collection of essays and interviews, Attwell is an engaging, authoritative source. J.M. Coetzee and The Life of Writing is the first book-length study to make use of Coetzee’s extensive archive. A fresh, engaging and moving take on one of the world’s foremost literary figures, it is bound to change the way Coetzee is read. 

Table of contents:

 1:An alphabet of trees. Autobiography. The uses of impersonality.
2:Recusant Afrikaners. Identity drift
3:1 January 1970. The beginning. Dusklands
4:Karoo. The beloved landscape. Life & Times of Michael K, In the Heart of the Country
5:The Burning of the Books. Censorship in the life of writing
6:Writing revolution. Waiting for the Barbarians
7:Suburban bandit. Michael K as outlaw
8:Crusoe, Defoe, Friday. Foe
9:Mother. Age of Iron
10:Father. Summertime
11:The Shot Tower. The Master of Petersburg
12:Migrations. Irreconcilable lives. Elizabeth Costello, Disgrace
13:The third stage. Australia. Slow Man, Diary of a Bad Year, The Childhood of Jesus

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