Full name: Stranger Shores: Literary Essays

Author: J. M. Coetzee Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Writing, Essays, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780099422624 9780142001370 009942262X

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. His subjects range from eighteenth and nineteenth century writers Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Ivan Turgenev, to the great German modernists Rilke, Kafka, and Musil, to the giants of late twentieth century literature, among them Harry Mulisch, Joseph Brodsky, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Amos Oz, Naguib Mahfouz, Nadine Gordimer and Doris Lessing. Similar books: The Meaning of Recognition by Clive James Due Considerations by John Updike Hugging the Shore by John Updike Quarrel & Quandary by Cynthia Ozick On grief and reason by Joseph Brodsky Inner Workings by J. M. Coetzee All Art Is Propaganda by George Orwell Time Bites by Doris Lessing Signposts in a Strange Land by Walker Percy The Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag Under the Sign of Saturn by Susan Sontag The Moronic Inferno by Martin Amis Otherwise Known as the Human Condition by Geoff Dyer Finding a Form by William H. Gass The Great Movies by Roger Ebert A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett Reflections by Diana Wynne Jones The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera Henry Miller on Writing by Henry Miller