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J.M. Coetzee and the Power of Narrative (Hardcover, New)
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J.M. Coetzee and the Power of Narrative (Hardcover, New)
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This book is a consideration of various themes and techniques
ranging across famous South African writer J. M. Coetzee's whole
oeuvre. It aims to discover the "how" rather than "what" or "why":
where does Coetzee's work derive its power? A discussion of themes,
influences, and allegorical meanings tends to bleach out the
experience of reading; and this experience is surely the only
reason for choosing Coetzee's narratives over anyone else's. It
examines the type of resistance to be found in his work, a
resistance which seems to have little basis in a political belief
or a rational philosophy of justice. The book also traces the
effects of Coetzee's choice of point of view in each of his
books--how it interacts with questions of complicity and
impressions of realism, as well as how it relates to the subject
matter and characters he is dealing with in each case. It is also
an exploration of the place of the comic arts in Coetzee's work.
This is a subject which has routinely been dismissed by critics who
have failed to discern any humor in the novels. The contention is
that a sense of the ridiculous and absurd is implicit in much of
Coetzee's narrative prose and can be seen in the underlying
structure of all his books. This study delves into his use of
language and languages: the choice of tenses, the surprising
flights of imagery to be found amidst the taut elegance of his
narrative style; and also the multilingual sensibilities he shares
with many of his characters, not excluding the non-verbal language
of music.
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