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How do individuals, who are part of a community, respond to the stranger as a stranger: id est without simply positioning this outsider in opposition to the community in which they are located? How may individuals receive something unknown and therefore surprising into their world without compromising it by identifying it in the terms of that world? In this study, Mike Marais traces the various ways in which Coetzee’s fiction, from Dusklands through to Slow Man , repeatedly poses such questions of hospitality. It is shown that the form of ethical action staged in Coetzee’s writing is grounded not in the individual’s willed and rational achievement, but in his or her invasion and possession by the strangeness of the stranger. This ethic of hospitality, Marais argues, has a strong aesthetic dimension: for Coetzee, the writer is inspired to write by being acted upon by a force from beyond the phenomenal world. The writer is a secretary of the invisible. She or he is responsible to and for the invisible. Marais maintains that this understanding of writing as an involuntary response to that which exceeds history is evident from the first in Coetzee’s fiction. In readings of the novels of the apartheid era, he traces this writer’s rueful, ironic awareness of the limited, even incidental, form of political engagement that may emanate from such an aesthetic. He then goes on to argue that if it is the writer’s obligation to render visible the invisible, writing must be a task that can never be completed. What is more, such writing is thus bound to be iterative in form. With this in mind, he traces the structural similarities between Coetzee’s writing of the apartheid period and his post-apartheid and Australian writing, arguing that the later texts are self-reflexively aware of their endlessly repetitive nature. These contentions are developed incrementally through close readings of the individual novels that focus on recurring metaphors of hospitality – visitor, the stranger, the house, the castaway, the invisible, the dream, and the child.

Hospitality in literature --- English --- English Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Hospitality in literature. --- Coetzee, J. M., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Coetzee, John M., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell, --- Coetzee, John Maxwell M. --- Coetzee, J. M. --- Coetzee, J.M. --- Coetzee, John M. --- Кутзее, Дж. М. --- Kutzee, Dzh. M. --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell

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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.

Coetzee, J. M., --- Coetzee, John Maxwell M. --- Coetzee, J. M. --- Coetzee, J.M. --- Coetzee, John M. --- Кутзее, Дж. М. --- Kutzee, Dzh. M. --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Coetzee, John Maxwell --- English literature --- Littérature anglaise --- Coetzee, John M., --- Кутзее, Дж. М., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл, --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell,

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J. M. Coetzee's early novels confronted readers with a brute reality stripped of human relation and a prose repeatedly described as spare, stark, intense and lyrical. In this book, Jarad Zimbler explores the emergence of a style forged in Coetzee's engagement with the complexities of South African culture and politics. Tracking the development of this style across Coetzee's first eight novels, from Dusklands to Disgrace, Zimbler compares Coetzee's writing with that of South African authors such as Gordimer, Brink and La Guma, whilst re-examining the nature of Coetzee's indebtedness to modernism and postmodernism. In each case, he follows the threads of Coetzee's own writings on stylistics and rhetoric in order to fix on those techniques of language and narrative used to activate a 'politics of style'. In so doing, Zimbler challenges long-held beliefs about Coetzee's oeuvre, and about the ways in which contemporary literatures of the world are to be read and understood.

Coetzee, J. M., --- Coetzee, John Maxwell M. --- Coetzee, J. M. --- Coetzee, J.M. --- Coetzee, John M. --- Кутзее, Дж. М. --- Kutzee, Dzh. M. --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Coetzee, John M., --- Кутзее, Дж. М., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл, --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell,

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Coetzee, J. M., --- Coetzee, John M., --- Кутзее, Дж. М., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл, --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- South Africa --- In literature. --- Coetzee, John Maxwell M. --- Coetzee, J. M. --- Coetzee, J.M. --- Coetzee, John M. --- Кутзее, Дж. М. --- Kutzee, Dzh. M. --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell --- Coetzee (john maxwell), 1940 --- -Coetzee, J. M., --- -Coetzee (john maxwell), 1940 --- -Coetzee (john maxwell), 1940-

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Fiction --- Truth in literature --- Sublime, The, in literature --- Literature --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Philosophy --- Coetzee, J. M., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Theory --- Coetzee, John M., --- Кутзее, Дж. М., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл, --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell, --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Novelists --- Coetzee, John Maxwell M. --- Coetzee, J. M. --- Coetzee, J.M. --- Coetzee, John M. --- Кутзее, Дж. М. --- Kutzee, Dzh. M. --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell --- History and criticism