J. M. Coetzee /
For Ceridwen Dovey, J.M. Coetzee 'has always been there, an unseen but strongly felt presence in our small family drama.' As a child, she observed with fascination her mother's immersion in Coetzee's writing as she worked on what would become the first critical study of his early...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Carlton, Victoria :
Black Inc.,
[2018]
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| Series: | Writers on writers.
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| Summary: | For Ceridwen Dovey, J.M. Coetzee 'has always been there, an unseen but strongly felt presence in our small family drama.' As a child, she observed with fascination her mother's immersion in Coetzee's writing as she worked on what would become the first critical study of his early novels. Even now, as a writer herself, Ceridwen's relationship with Coetzee's books is still mediated by her mother's readings of them, to get to him, she must first step through her mother's formidable mind. With tenderness and insight, Dovey draws on this personal history to explore the Nobel Prize-winner's work, how his books 'do theory' on themselves while also tracing the intellectual heritage that has been passed from mother to daughter. |
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| Physical Description: | 87 pages ; 19 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781760640613 1760640611 |