J. M. Coetzee's early novels confronted readers with a brute
reality stripped of human relation and a prose repeatedly described
as spare, stark, intense and lyrical. In this book, Jarad Zimbler
explores the emergence of a style forged in Coetzee's engagement
with the complexities of South African culture and politics.
Tracking the development of this style across Coetzee's first eight
novels, from Dusklands to Disgrace, Zimbler compares Coetzee's
writing with that of South African authors such as Gordimer, Brink
and La Guma, whilst re-examining the nature of Coetzee's
indebtedness to modernism and postmodernism. In each case, he
follows the threads of Coetzee's own writings on stylistics and
rhetoric in order to fix on those techniques of language and
narrative used to activate a 'politics of style'. In so doing,
Zimbler challenges long-held beliefs about Coetzee's oeuvre, and
about the ways in which contemporary literatures of the world are
to be read and understood.
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