J.M. Coetzee
by David Attwell · first published 1993
7mentions
3recommended by
7HN commenters
2012–2024first – last mentioned
43% recommend43% neutral14% critical
"David Attwell defends the literary and political integrity of the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, arguing that he has absorbed the textual turn of postmodern culture while still addressing his nation's ethical crisis. As a form of "situational metafiction," Coetzee's novels are shown to reconstruct and critique some of the key discourses in the history of colonialism and apartheid from the eighteenth century to the present. While self-conscious about fiction-making, Coetzee's work takes seriously the condition of the society in which it is produced." "Attwell begins by describing the in
Affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
J.M. Coetzee wrote a novella called Youth: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/may/04/fiction.jmcoetze... – it features a great section about programming at IBM during the 60s, and although the book itself is not…
on “Ask HN: Best books (fiction?) written about *real* computers/computing.” ↗Read heavy fiction. Try Jorge Luis Borges, or the Nobel winning J M Coetzee. Krishnamurti is worth a read.
on “Ask HN: How to transition from non-fiction to fiction reading?” ↗…touches lots of tabboo topics. I don't know if there are decent translations of them from Portuguese to other languages. My favorite book _that is available in English_ is "The Lives of Animals", by J.M. Coetzee: <https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_resources/documents/a-to-z/...>.
on “Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?” ↗The Nobel prize winning author J. M. Coetzee worked as a programmer when he was young - he describes it in his autobiographical novel, Youth. The promiment novelist Richard Powers worked as a programmer when he was young - that part of his life…
on “Ask HN: Has anybody successfully changed their career to become a writer?” ↗Nobel prizewinner J.M. Coetzee's "Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II" has an interesting look at his life as a computer programmer in London in the 1960s. Non Nobel-winner Michel Houellbecq's book "Whatever" is a dark but somewhat…
on “T.S. Eliot's day job at Lloyd's Bank” ↗This is exactly what I thought of Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee. Someone else could have written that book, and we'd all be better off for it having never been published. I wonder if I'll ever try to reread it hoping I missed something.
on “In Praise of the Long and Complicated Sentence” ↗…Carlos Onetti Balcony In The Forest by Julien Gracq Historia De España Contada Para Escépticos by Juan Eslava Galán Diez Lecciones Sobre Los Clásicos by Piero Boitani Waiting For The Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee 97,196 Words by Emmanuel Carrere Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace El Zafarrancho Aquel De Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda
on “Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?” ↗