This book argues that the significance of Coetzee's complex and finely-nuanced fiction lies in the acuity with which it both explores and develops the tradition of the novel - ranging from Cervantes, Defoe, and Richardson, to Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Beckett - as part of a sustained attempt to rethink the relationship between writing and politics. INDICE: Introduction; 1: Writing and Politics: Contexts and Debates; 2:Writing and Politics After Beckett; 3: 'JOEY RULES': Telling the Truth in Life & Times of Michael K; 4: 'An author I have not read': Foe, Crime and Punishment, and the Problem of the Novel; 5: Genre and Countergenre: Age of Iron, Pamela, and Don Quixote; 6: 'Redemption' or 'Delegitimisation'? the Artist on Trial in The Master of Petersburg; 7: 'Is this the right image of our nation?' Disgrace and the Seriousness of the Novel; 8: Cultural Criticism in the Australian Fiction; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958795-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 12/08/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés