The Master of Petersburg (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: J. M. Coetzee
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: Autumn, 1869
- Setting: St. Petersburg, Russia
- Principal Characters: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Sergei Gennadevich Nechaev, Anna Sergeyevna Kolenkina, Matryona, P. P. Maximov, Katri, Pyotr Alexandrovich Ivanov
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Language or languages, Revolutionaries, Murder or homicide, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Guilt, Assassination, English language, Stepfamily, Russia or Russian people
- Locales: St. Petersburg, Russia
Born in Cape Town into an Afrikaans-speaking family, J. M. Coetzee would eventually become one of the leading English-language authors of South Africa. As a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin in 1969, Coetzee submitted a doctoral dissertation titled “The English Fiction of Samuel Beckett: An Essay in Stylistic Analysis.” He was fascinated by how and why Beckett negotiated a transition from English to French as the medium of his fiction and by the way language itself becomes an issue in much of Beckett’s work. In his first six books of fiction, usually set in...
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