J・M・クッツェー

"J.M. Coetzee's vision goes to the nerve center of being."—Nadine Gordimer J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2017 will be available January 2018. A shattering pair of novellas in the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Dusklands probes the links …

Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, among other awards, two Booker Prizes, and most recently, the Nobel Prize, Coetzee has once again crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale. Told through an ingenious series of formal addresses, Elizabeth Costello is, …

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 …

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 …

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.

『マイケル・K』は、J・M・クッツェーの小説である。1983年に出版され、同年のブッカー賞を受賞。 アパルトヘイト時代の南アフリカを舞台に、口唇裂を持つ庭師のマイケルが、内戦で疲弊した都市ケープタウンから、母親が少女期を過ごした思い出の地、プリンスアルバートまで、病んだ母親を手作りの車椅子に乗せて困難な旅を続ける姿を描く。途中、母親は死に、その骨灰をもってマイケルは旅を続け、たどり着いた農場で、あらゆる束縛からのがれ、たったひとりカボチャを育てて生きようとする。 きわめて寓話的な作品といわれているが、厳しい検閲制度があった当時の南アフリカで、"Waiting for the …