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"I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world." -- J. M. Coetzee

J. M. Coetzee

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"As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.""As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.""Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?""I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.""I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.""If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.""If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?""In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.""In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.""My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.""Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.""That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.""The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.""The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.""The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.""The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.""There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.""We are not by nature cruel."

Total Books: 205

2008 - Disgrace [Audio CD - Unabridged] (Audio CD)
ISBN-13: 9780143143451
ISBN-10: 014314345X
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.

2007 - Diary of a Bad Year (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780670018758
ISBN-10: 0670018759
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Teen & Young Adult

Currently 4.3/5 Stars.

2006 - Slow Man (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780143037897
ISBN-10: 0143037897
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3/5 Stars.

2004 - Elizabeth Costello (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780142004814
ISBN-10: 0142004812
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 2.7/5 Stars.

2003 - Elizabeth Costello (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780670031306
ISBN-10: 0670031305
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 2.9/5 Stars.

2002 - Youth Scenes From Provincial Life II (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780965451772
ISBN-10: 0965451771
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2000 - Disgrace (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780140296402
ISBN-10: 0140296409
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.

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1999 - Disgrace (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780965216555
ISBN-10: 0965216551
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.

1995 - The Master of Petersburg (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
ISBN-13: 9780140238105
ISBN-10: 0140238107
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.

1987 - A Land Apart a Contemporary South African Reader (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780140100044
ISBN-10: 0140100040
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

Currently 4.5/5 Stars.

A Land Apart a South African Reader (Hardcover) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780571139330
ISBN-10: 0571139337
Genre: Literature & Fiction

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