Focusing on work by Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee, Literary Cynics explores the relationship between literature and cynicism to consider what happens when authors write themselves
Literary Cynics reconsiders the meaqnings of words like cynicism and cosmopolitanism for Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee, testing the limits of their merely cynical cosmopolitanism.
ARE YOU A MISTAKE MAKER?Have you ever thought: "I'd better not try, I could be embarrassed"?Does it bother you to see someone you know get ahead -- of you?Have you ever thought: "Its my responsibility
In a unique approach to historical representations, the central question of this book is 'what is history?' By describing 'history' through its supplementary function to the field of History, rather t
