Dusklands | Critical Overview
Coetzee’s first novel Dusklands did not receive a lot of international critical attention. This may have been due more to the fact that he published in South Africa than to the content of his work. Since that time, however, and especially since he won the Booker Prize for his third novel Life and Times of Michael K, Coetzee has become an often critiqued author. For instance, in a summary of Coetzee’s body of work, Kristjana Gunnars for World Literature Today describes Coetzee’s style and impact in this way, “J. M. Coetzee’s fiction strips bare the veneer...
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