Description
| Product ID: | 9780099422624 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Stranger Shores |
| Authors: | Author: J.M. Coetzee |
| Page Count: | 384 |
| Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A collection of 29 pieces on books, writing, photography, and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. With literary subjects ranging from Defoe through Rilke and Kafka to the giants of the 20th century, those who admire Coetzee as a novelist can also read his literary criticism. J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world''s greatest novelists. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Stranger Shores opens with ''What is a Classic?'' in which Coetzee explores the answer to his own question - ''What does it mean in living terms to say that the classic is what survives?'' - by way of TS Eliot, JS Bach and Zbigniew Herbert. |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2002-08-01 |
