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J.M. Coetzee: Fictions of the Real (Hardcover)
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J.M. Coetzee: Fictions of the Real (Hardcover)
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J.M. Coetzee has new things to say about this relation between the
'real' and 'fictions of the real', and while much has already been
written about him, these questions need to be more fully explored.
The contributions to this volume are drawn together by the idea of
the hinge between the world (whether understood in ontological,
bio-ethical, personal and interpersonal, or socio-political terms)
and fictional representations of it (whether understood in
epistemological, ficto-biographical, formal, or stylistic terms).
In this collection, the question of understanding itself - how we
understand or imagine our place in the world - is shown to be
central to our conception of that world. That is, rather than
beginning with forms developed in socio-political understandings,
Coetzee's works ask us to consider what role fiction might play in
relation to politics, in relation to history, in relation to ethics
and our understanding of human agency and responsibility. Coetzee
has a profound interest in the methods through which we make sense
of the contemporary world and our place in it, and his approach
appeals to readers of fiction, critics and philosophers alike. The
central problems he deals with in his fiction are of the kind that
confront people everywhere and so involve a "translatability" that
allow the works to maintain relevance across cultures. Added to
this, though, his fiction makes us question the nature of
understanding itself. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Textual Practice.
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