J. M. Coetzee (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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J. M. Coetzee has published a number of book reviews and essays, primarily dealing with South African authors and Thomas Hardy. He has published translations of other writers’ work into Afrikaans, Dutch, French, and German. In White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa (1988), he surveys South African literature from its beginnings up to, but not including, World War II. Coetzee has also published a memoir, Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (1997), written in the third person. With characteristic restraint, he tells of his...

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