J. M Coetzee

Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. J. M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. He argues that a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalation tends to overtake the rivals in any field ruled by censorship. From Osip Mandelstam...

Eine unauslotbare Parabel mit apokalyptischen Elementen In einem fremden Land finden sich ein Mann und ein Junge wieder, wo sie ohne Erinnerung ihr Leben neu zusammenbuchstabieren. Sie müssen nicht nur eine neue Sprache lernen, sondern auch für den Jungen eine Mutter suchen. Emigration, Einsamkeit, das Rätsel einer Ankunft. In einem dunklen Glas spiegelt Coetzee unsere Welt, so dass sich alles Nebensächliche verliert und die elementarsten Gesten...

"Exacting yet unpredictable, pithy yet complex, Coetzee's The Pole tells the story of Wittold Walccyzkiecz, a vigorous, extravagantly white-haired pianist and interpreter of Chopin who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his concert in Barcelona. Although Beatriz, a married woman, is initially unimpressed by Wittold and his "gleaming dentures," she soon finds herself pursued and ineluctably swept...

Professor David Lurie is a man whose world is shattered when he is fired for seducing a college student. He finds peace at his estranged daughter's modest farm in South Africa until a horrific incident of terror and violence forces Lurie to confront his beliefs and the disturbing racial complexities of the new South Africa.