Age of Iron (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: J. M. Coetzee
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1986
- Setting: Cape Town, South Africa
- Principal Characters: Mrs. Curren, Her Daughter, Vercueil, Florence Mkubukeli, Bheki, Johnny, Mr. Thabane
- Genres: Long fiction, Apocalyptic and catastrophe fiction
- Subjects: Culture, Language or languages, Family or family life, Power, personal or social, Politics, Exile or expatriates, Violence, Cancer, Human behavior, Meditation
- Locales: Cape Town, South Africa
Few writers have striven to work so relentlessly within so narrow a stylistic range yet managed, as I M. Coetzee has, to sharpen that style from book to book and to use it on a broad range of superficially diverse but essentially similar subjects. Few writers, that is, have managed so successfully to turn the postmodernist’s pursuit of style and the moralist’s preoccupation with the most basic and most vexing questions of contemporary life into brilliantly conceived and brilliantly executed aesthetic wholes, political but never merely polemical, polished but never fetishized. Simple...
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