Reading coetzee - Couverture souple

Macfarlane, Elizabet

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9042037016 ISBN 13 : 9789042037014

Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2013

Synopsis

Just as J. M. Coetzee’s post-2003 books present essays and narrative alongside one another, this book engages with its ideas through both critical and creative writing. Reading Coetzee interleaves critical essays on Coetzee’s works with an autobiographical narrative detailing MacFarlane’s more personal response to her reading and writing. The presentation of elements of the creative with the critical, and the critical within the creative, aims to challenge the traditional boundary between the two. This kind of methodology derives from the idea (and practice) of embodiment: that an idea or philosophy does not ‘float free’, but is tied to the idiosyncrasies, divergences, and subjective ‘travel’ of its speaker or writer.
Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello, Slow Man and Diary of a Bad Year explicitly address themes which abide more surreptitiously throughout his oeuvre: the divisions and paradoxes which occur the moment pen gains page, the value of literature, and the ethics of embodiment. In revealing the dialogue between writer-self and reader-self, and between author and character, these recent novels invite a rereading of Coetzee’s previous literature. Reading Coetzee explores Coetzee’s preoccupation with the act of writing using his recent books as a lens through which to view his eight previous novels as well as his memoirs and essays.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Elizabeth MacFarlane is a writer and researcher in the Creative Writing department at the University of Melbourne.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9042037016
• ISBN 13: 9789042037014
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible