This new collection of essays on Coetzee examines how his novels
create and unsettle literary authority. Its unique contribution is
to show how Coetzee provokes us into reconsidering certain basic
formal and existential questions such as the nature of literary
realism, the authority of the author and the constitution of the
human self in a posthumanist setting by consciously revealing the
literary-theoretical seams of his work. Strong Opinions makes the
innovative claim that Coetzee's work is driven not by a sense of
scepticism or nihilism but rather by a form of controlled exposure
that defines the literary. The essays in the volume variously draw
attention to three of Coetzee's most recent and significant
experiments in controlled exposure. The first is the exposure of
place-Coetzee's decision to set his novels in his newly adopted
country of Australia. The second is the exposure of form-Coetzee's
direct, almost essayistic address of literary-philosophical topics
within his novels. And the third is the exposure of
limits-Coetzee's explicit deconstruction of the traditional limits
of human life.
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