In the Heart of the Country is an early novel by South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. The book is notable for being one of Coetzee's more experimental novels and is narrated through 266 numbered paragraphs rather than chapters.
Foe is a 1986 novel by South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. Woven around the existing plot of Robinson Crusoe, Foe is written from the perspective of Susan Barton, a castaway who landed on the same island inhabited by "Cruso" and Friday as their adventures were already underway. Like Robinson Crusoe, it is …
سرزمینهای گرگومیش نخستین اثر داستانی جان مکسول کوتزی، نویسندهٔ اهل آفریقای جنوبی و برندهٔ جایزهٔ نوبل ادبیات سال ۲۰۰۳ میلادی است. نویسنده در این اثر خود نقدی دقیق و روانکاوانه بر روحیهٔ امپریالیستی دنیای غرب از یک سو، و فرهنگهای دیگری که از دیگرسو با ناتوانی و فساد درونی خود در طول تاریخ راه را برای استعمارگران …
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent …