J.M. Coetzee

A new collection of twenty-three literary essays from the Nobel Prize–winning author. J. M. Coetzee’s latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. J. M. Coetzee is not only one of the most acclaimed fiction writers in the world, he is also an accomplished and insightful literary critic. In Late …

The Master of Petersburg is a 1994 novel by South African writer J. M. Coetzee. The novel is a work of fiction but features the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky as its protagonist. It is a deep, complex work that draws on the life of Dostoyevsky, the life of the author and the history of Russia to produce profoundly …

Foe is a 1986 novel by South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. Woven around the existing plot of Robinson Crusoe, Foe is written from the perspective of Susan Barton, a castaway who landed on the same island inhabited by "Cruso" and Friday as their adventures were already underway. Like Robinson Crusoe, it is …

Onåd är en postkolonial roman från 2000 av J.M. Coetzee. Den utspelar sig i Sydafrika efter apartheid, och handlar om en vit medelålders universitetslärare som har en affär med en student. När affären avslöjas vägrar han visa ånger och flyttar ut till sin dotters lantgård i Östra Kapprovinsen, ett område där …

Pojkår är en delvis självbiografisk roman av den sydafrikanska författaren J. M. Coetzee från 1997. Den översattes till svenska 2001 och gavs ut på Brombergs i översättning av Thomas Preis. Romanen behandlar Coetzees uppväxt i Worcester en bit utanför Kapstaden, hans fogliga sätt i skolan kontra hans tyranni hemma, …

Scenes from Provincial Life brings together, in one volume, J.M. Coetzee’s majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir, Boyhood, Youth and Summertime It opens in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s. We meet a young boy who, at home, is ill at ease with his father and stifled by his mother’s unconditional love. …

"J.M. Coetzee's vision goes to the nerve center of being."—Nadine Gordimer J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2017 will be available January 2018. A shattering pair of novellas in the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Dusklands probes the links …