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A fascinating collection of essays on literary subjects ranging from Daniel Defoe to Samuel Beckett by a Nobel and Booker Prize-winning writer.

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Stranger Shores, a collection of J.M. Coetzee´s essays from 1986 to 1999 was followed by Inner Workings, which contained those from 2000 to 2005. Late Essays gathers together Coetzee´s literary essays since 2006.

The subjects covered range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee´s contemporary Philip Roth. Coetzee has had a long-standing interest in German literature and here he engages with the work of Goethe, Hölderlin, Kleist and Walser. There are four fascinating essays on fellow Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett and he looks at the work of three Australian writers: Patrick White, Les Murray and Gerald Murnane. There are essays too on Tolstoy´s great novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich, on Flaubert´s masterpiece Madame Bovary, and on the Argentine modernist Antonio Di Benedetto.

J.M. Coetzee, a great novelist himself, is a wise and insightful guide to these works of international literature that span three centuries.

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"A writer of JM Coetzee´s stature needs no preamble... This book emerges as an engaging series of master classes in novel writing, from which we might distil a selection of dos and don´ts" Lauren Elkin Guardian

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J.M. Coetzee ´s work includes Waiting for the Barbarians , Life & Times of Michael K , Boyhood , Youth , Disgrace, Summertime and The Childhood of Jesus . He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.

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J.M. Coetzee´s work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime, The Childhood of Jesus and, most recently, The Schooldays of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.

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