Full name: Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005

Author: J. M. Coetzee Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Writing, Essays, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780670038657 9780143113782 0670038652 014311378X

A new collection of essays and literary criticism from Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee In addition to being one of the most acclaimed and accomplished fiction writers in the world, J. M. Coetzee is also a literary critic of the highest caliber. As Derek Attridge observes in his illuminating introduction, reading Coetzees nonfiction offers one the opportunity to see how an author at the forefront of his profession engages with his peers, not as a critic from the outside, but as one who works with the same raw materials. In this collection of twenty recent pieces, Coetzee examines the work of some of the twentieth centurys greatest writersfrom Samuel Beckett and Gnter Grass to Gabriel Garca Mrquez and Philip Roth. Brilliantly insightful, challenging, yet accessible, these essays demonstrate Coetzees sharp eye and unwavering critical acumen and will be of interest to his many fans as well as to all readers of international literature. Similar books: Finding a Form by William H. Gass Quarrel & Quandary by Cynthia Ozick The Curtain by Milan Kundera The World Within the Word by William H. Gass Encounter by Milan Kundera Stranger Shores by J. M. Coetzee The Fun Stuff by James Wood How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken by Daniel Mendelsohn Signposts in a Strange Land by Walker Percy The Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport A Temple of Texts by William H. Gass The War Against Cliche by Martin Amis Under the Sign of Saturn by Susan Sontag Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag Selected Essays by T. S. Eliot The Great Movies by Roger Ebert A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett Reflections by Diana Wynne Jones The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera Henry Miller on Writing by Henry Miller