Doubling the Point. Essays and Interviews. Edited by David Attwell
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1992 (first edition).
Large octavo, x, 438 pages.
Cloth very lightly marked and bumped; an excellent copy without a dustwrapper (if one was issued).
The title page is signed by the author, the first person to win the Booker Prize twice (in 1983 and 1999); he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. This book 'explores the relations between Coetzee's critical writing from 1970 to 1990, and his fiction, an oeuvre of six novels ... the present volume represents the full range of Coetzee's nonfiction, showing him as linguist and stylistician, critic of metropolitan and modern South African literature, translator, essayist in popular culture, reviewer, polemicist, and autobiographer. Whatever his achievements in these fields, the intensity and accomplishment of Coetzee's life in literature and scholarship are borne out finally in the novels. The interviews which tie this collection together show the interplay of fiction and scholarship: conducted over a period of two years, they fashion the selection into the shape of a writer's intellectual autobiography' (editor's introduction).
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