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- ISBN-13
- 9781760640613
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- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- On JM Coetzee: Writers on Writers
- Item Height
- 187mm
- Publisher
- Black Inc.
- Topic
- Literature, Memorials
- Item Width
- 121mm
- Item Weight
- 208g
- Number of Pages
- 96 Pages
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From South Africa to Australia, Dovey draws on family history to explore the Nobel Prize-winning writer's work, tracing an intellectual heritage that has been passed from mother to daughter. 'I was born in the year J.M. Coetzee published his third novel, Waiting for the Barbarians. My mother read this dark, disturbing book with its multiple scenes of torture as she breastfed me at night, while my older sister slept and the house was quiet. It was 1980. The apartheid government had declared a state of emergency in the face of growing internal revolt, and my parents were thinking of leaving South Africa again.' For Ceridwen Dovey, J.M. Coetzee 'has always been there, an unseen but strongly felt presence in our small family drama'. As a child, she observed with fascination her mother's immersion in Coetzee's writing as she worked on what would become the first critical study of his early novels. Even now, as a writer herself, Ceridwen's relationship with Coetzee's books is still mediated by her mother's readings of them- to get to him, she must first step through her mother's formidable mind. With tenderness and insight, Dovey draws on this personal history to explore the Nobel Prize-winner's work - how his books 'do theory' on themselves - while also tracing the intellectual heritage that has been passed from mother to daughter. In the Writers on Writers series, leading writers reflect on another Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative, crisp and written from a practitioner's perspective, the series starts a fresh conversation between past and present, writer and reader. It sheds light on the craft of writing, and introduces some intriguing and talented authors and their work. Published by Black Inc. in association with the University of Melbourne and State Library Victoria. Also available in the Writers on Writers series Alice Pung on John Marsden Erik Jensen on Kate Jennings Christos Tsiolkas on Patrick White Nam Le on David Malouf (forthcoming) Michelle de Kretser on Shirley Hazzard (forthcoming)
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Black Inc.
ISBN-13
9781760640613
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Book Title
On JM Coetzee: Writers on Writers
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Memorials
Publication Year
2018
Number of Pages
96 Pages
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Item Height
187mm
Item Width
121mm
Item Weight
208g
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Australia
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