Contains newly commissioned and reprinted articles on the work of a South African novelist of Afrikaans heritage, looking at his writing from various perspectives, including Marxist, poststructuralist
The editors (associated with Monash U. and U. of New South Wales, Australia) propose that J.M. Coetzee, perhaps more than any author, strove to write without literary authority or, in other words, sou
Shows how Coetzee makes us reconsider certain basic formal and existential questions such as the nature of literary realism and the authority of the author.