A los cincuenta y dos años, David Lurie tiene poco de lo que enorgullecerse. Con dos divorcios a sus espaldas, apaciguar el deseo es su única aspiración, sus clases en la universidad son un mero trámite para él y para los...
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In an act of breathtaking imagination, J. M. Coetzee radically reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe.
In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself set adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island....
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«История — это жизнь каждого отдельного человека, и каждый человек — это история». Тема, звучащая в этом, первом (1974), романе...
«Прогнило что-то в королевстве Датском»… и тревожный запах этой гнили пропитывает одну из самых сильных и беспощадных книг Кутзее. Он...
Если все русские писатели вышли из "Шинели" Гоголя, то роман южноафриканского писателя и нобелиата Дж.М.Кутзее "Мистер Фо" и роман...
Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee's new book follows a young biographer as he works on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. The biographer embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee during the period...
One of the two books that J. M. Coetzee won the Booker Prize for (he was also awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature), The Life and Times of Michael K. is the story of a simple man attempting to survive (from without) in a society that has...
From Publishers Weekly
Harsh, unflinching and powerful, Coetzee's (Waiting for the Barbarians) new novel is a cry of moral outrage at the legacy that apartheid has created in South Africa. In scenes of stunning ferocity, he depicts the unequal...
"[A] distinguished piece of fiction…[Its] power of historical immediacy gives the novel its thrust, its larger and, if you wish, 'universal' value." The New York Times
"I have known few authors who can evoke such a wilderness in the heart of man....