Inner Workings

A new collection of essays and literary criticism from Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee

In addition to being one of the most acclaimed and accomplished fiction writers in the world, J. M. Coetzee is also a literary critic of the highest caliber. As Derek Attridge observes in his illuminating introduction, reading Coetzee’s nonfiction offers one the opportunity to see “how an...

A new collection of essays and literary criticism from Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee

In addition to being one of the most acclaimed and accomplished fiction writers in the world, J. M. Coetzee is also a literary critic of the highest caliber. As Derek Attridge observes in his illuminating introduction, reading Coetzee’s nonfiction offers one the opportunity to see “how an author at the forefront of his profession engages with his peers, not as a critic from the outside, but as one who works with the same raw materials.” In this collection of twenty recent pieces, Coetzee examines the work of some of the twentieth century’s greatest writers—from Samuel Beckett and Günter Grass to Gabriel García Márquez and Philip Roth. Brilliantly insightful, challenging, yet accessible, these essays demonstrate Coetzee’s sharp eye and unwavering critical acumen and will be of interest to his many fans as well as to all readers of international literature.

J.M.库切著有：《幽暗之地》、《内陆深处》、《等待野蛮人》、《迈克尔·K的生活与时代》、《福》、《彼得堡的大师》、《男孩》、《青春》、《凶年纪事》(英文版均列入企鹅丛书，中译本由浙江文艺出版社出版)。作者曾为芝加哥大学社会思想学系教授，现定居澳大利亚。曾荣获许多文学奖项，其中包括：南非最著名的“中央新闻社文学奖”(三次)、布克奖(两次)、法国费米娜外国小说奖、耶路撒冷奖、拉南文学奖、爱尔兰时报国际小说奖、英联邦文学奖和诺贝尔文学奖(2003)。