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Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005
By J.M. Coetzee
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Of the writers discussed in the first half of the book several - Italo Svevo Joseph Roth Bruno Schulz Sandor Marai - lived through the Austro-Hungarian fin de siècle and felt the influence of Schopenhauer Nietzsche and Freud. Coetzee further explores the work of six of twentieth-century German literature's greatest writers: Robert Musil Robert Walser Walter Benjamin (the Arcades Project) Joseph Roth Gunter Grass W.G. Sebald and the poet Paul Celan in his 'wrestlings with the German language'.
There is an essay on Graham Greene's Brighton Rock and on the short fiction of Samuel Beckett a writer whom Coetzee has long admired. American literature is strongly represented from Walt Whitman through William Faulkner Saul Bellow and Arthur Miller to Philip Roth. Coetzee rounds off the collection with essays on three fellow Nobel laureates: Nadine Gordimer Gabriel García Márquez and V.S. Naipaul.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2008-03-06
Publication Date:
2008-03-06
Publisher:
Vintage
Languages:
Published:
English,
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0099506149
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Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
223 g
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