Coetzee, J. M. 1940-

The master of Petersburg by J. M Coetzee( Book )
90 editions published between 1994 and 2010 in 21 languages and held by 1,490 libraries worldwide
The novel recreates the world of the Russian writer, Dostoevsky, with him as the protagonist. He returns from exile to St. Petersburg to investigate the death of his stepson, officially a suicide, but as he was a revolutionary Dostoevsky suspects murder. By the author of Waiting for the Barbarians.

Summertime : fiction by J. M Coetzee( Book )
7 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 1,441 libraries worldwide
In this autobiographical novel, a young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father--a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer.

The lives of animals( Book )
10 editions published between 1999 and 2008 in English and Japanese and held by 1,338 libraries worldwide
The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world. Here the internationally renowned writer J.M. Coetzee uses fiction to present a powerfully moving discussion of animal rights in all their complexity. He draws us into Elizabeth Costello's own sense of mortality, her compassion for animals, and her alienation from humans, even from her own family. In his fable, presented as a Tanner Lecture sponsored by the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, Coetzee immerses us in a drama reflecting the real-life situation at hand: a writer delivering a lecture on an emotionally charged issue at a prestigious university. As in the story of Elizabeth Costello, the Tanner Lecture is followed by responses treating the reader to a variety of perspectives, delivered by leading thinkers in different fields.

In the heart of the country by J. M Coetzee( Book )
96 editions published between 1977 and 2010 in 22 languages and held by 1,263 libraries worldwide
A young woman living on a remote South African farm describes her loneliness and bitter anger.

Giving offense : essays on censorship by J. M Coetzee( Book )
8 editions published between 1996 and 2003 in English and held by 1,064 libraries worldwide
In Giving Offense, South African writer J.M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of a writer who has lived and worked under its shadow. Widely acclaimed for his many novels, Coetzee is also a brilliant literary critic and essayist. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. Subscribing neither to the myth of the writer as a moral giant nor to that of the writer as persecuted innocent, Coetzee argues that a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalation tends to overtake the rivals in any field ruled by censorship.

Inner workings : literary essays, 2000-2005 by J. M Coetzee( Book )
15 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,012 libraries worldwide
A new collection of essays and literary criticism from the Nobel Prize winner. In addition to being one of the most acclaimed and accomplished fiction writers in the world, Coetzee is also a literary critic of the highest caliber. As Derek Attridge observes in his introduction, reading Coetzee's nonfiction offers one the opportunity to see "how an author at the forefront of his profession engages with his peers, not as a critic from the outside, but as one who works with the same raw materials." In this collection of twenty recent pieces, Coetzee examines the work of some of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Insightful, challenging, yet accessible, these essays demonstrate Coetzee's sharp eye and unwavering critical acumen and will be of interest to his fans as well as to all readers of international literature.--From publisher description.

White writing : on the culture of letters in South Africa by J. M Coetzee( Book )
10 editions published between 1988 and 2007 in English and held by 887 libraries worldwide

Stranger shores : literary essays, 1986-1999 by J. M Coetzee( Book )
10 editions published between 2001 and 2004 in English and held by 840 libraries worldwide
"What Is a Classic?" [the author] explores the answer by way of T.S. Eliot, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Zbigniew Herbert. [He] discuss[es] eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors such as Dofoe and Turgenev, the German modernists such as Rilke and Kafka, and the giants of late- twentieth-century literature, among them Brodsky, Gordimer, and Lessing.-Back cover.

Dusklands by J. M Coetzee( Book )
51 editions published between 1974 and 2010 in 14 languages and held by 758 libraries worldwide
A megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks vengeance on a Hottentot tribe for undermining the 'natural' order of his universe with their anarchic rival order, mocking him and subjecting him to the humiliations of his own all too palpable flesh. A specialist in psychological warfare is driven to breakdown by the stresses of a project of macabre ingenuity to win the war in Vietnam. Both the 18th-century Jacobus Coetzee and the 20th-century Eugene Dawn are in the business of pushing back the frontiers of knowledge and are dealers in death who denounce their own humanity and spurn their feelings of guilt. In these two narratives, Coetzee has crystallized in their absurdity and horror the extremes of scientific evangelism and heroic exploration.

A Land apart : a contemporary South African reader( Book )
8 editions published between 1986 and 1987 in English and held by 641 libraries worldwide