J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Style

J. M. Coetzee''s early novels confronted readers with a brute reality stripped of human relation and a prose repeatedly described as spare, stark, intense and lyrical. In this book, Jarad Zimbler explores the emergence of a style forged in Coetzee''s engagement with the complexities of South African culture and politics. Tracking the development of this style across Coetzee''s first eight novels, ...