J. M. Coetzee
Truth, Meaning, Fiction
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Word Count
52,000 words, Guess
Page Count
208 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28059313M
- ISBN-139781501357473
- OCLC Control Number1107806875
- OCLC Control Number1108786599
- Library of Congress Control Number2019025902
Classifications
- LCCPR9369.3.C58Z923
- LCCPR9369.3.C58 Z923 2020
Description
"In this major reassessment of J. M. Coetzee, which looks at Coetzee's full writing career thus far, Anthony Uhlmann illuminates the intellectual and philosophical interests that drive Coetzee's writing. In doing so, Uhlmann makes the case for Coetzee as an important and original thinker in his right. Whilst looking at Coetzee's writing career, from his dissertation through to The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), and interpreting running themes and scenarios, style, and evolving attitudes to form and genre, Uhlmann also offers revealing glimpses, informed by archival research, of Coetzee's writing process. Among the main themes that Uhlmann draws out from Coetzee's writing, and which remain highly relevant today, are the ideas that there is truth in fiction, or that fiction can provide valuable understandings of real world problems, and there are also fictions of the truth: that we are surrounded, in our everyday lives, with stories we tell ourselves which we wish to believe are true"--
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- J. M. Coetzee: Truth, Meaning, Fiction
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