TY - BOOK ID - 145321314 TI - J.M. Coetzee and the life of writing : face to face with time PY - 2015 SN - 9780198746331 PB - New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Coetzee, John Maxwell, KW - Critique et interprétation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145321314 AB - J.M. Coetzee is one of the world's most intriguing authors. Compelling, razor-sharp, erudite: the adjectives pile up but the heart of the fiction remains elusive. Now, in J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing, David Attwell explores the extraordinary creative processes behind Coetzee's novels from Dusklands to The Childhood of Jesus. Using Coetzee's manuscripts, notebooks, and research papers—recently deposited at the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas at Austin—Attwell produces a fascinating story. He shows convincingly that Coetzee's work is strongly autobiographical, the memoirs being continuous with the fictions, and that his writing proceeds with never-ending self-reflection. ER -