Bibliograph

J.M. Coetzee and the life of writing, face-to-face with time, David Attwell

Type

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J.M. Coetzee and the life of writing, face-to-face with time, David Attwell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsportraitsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

J.M. Coetzee and the life of writing

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

919591064

Responsibility statement

David Attwell

Sub title

face-to-face with time

Summary

"J.M. Coetzee is one of the most intriguing of authors in all of world literature. Now, in J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing, David Attwell illuminates the extraordinary creative processes behind Coetzee's novels from Dusklands to The Childhood of Jesus. Using Coetzee's manuscripts, notebooks and research papers - recently deposited at the Ransom Center of the University of Texas at Austin - Attwell produces a fascinating story of the creative trajectory and the life out of which the fiction was engendered. He shows convincingly that all of Coetzee's work is autobiographical, the memoirs being continuous with the fictions, and that his writing proceeds with self-conscious and never-ending reflection. This is a moving and readable account which is bound to change the way Coetzee is read, by the critics and general reader alike."--Provided by publisher

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