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Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee is one of the most widely taught contemporary writers, but also one of the most elusive. Many critics who have addressed his work have devoted themselves to rendering it more accessible and acceptable, often playing down the features that discomfort and perplex his readers. Yet it is just these features, Derek Attridge argues, that give Coetzee's work its haunting power and offer its greatest rewards. Attridge does justice to this power and these rewards in a study that serves as an introduction for readers new to Coetzee and a stimulus for thought for those who know his work well. Without overlooking the South African dimension of his fiction, Attridge treats Coetzee as a writer who raises questions of central importance to current debates both within literary studies and more widely in the ethical arena. Implicit throughout the book is Attridge's view that literature, more than philosophy, politics, or even religion, does singular justice to our ethical impulses and acts. Attridge follows Coetzee's lead in exploring a number of issues such as interpretation and literary judgment, responsibility to the other, trust and betrayal, artistic commitment, confession, and the problematic idea of truth to the self.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: J.M.Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading
• Subtitle: Literature in the Event
• Author: Derek Attridge
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780226031163
• ID: 04542210
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 464 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 166 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. January 2005

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