Item #125573 Two Screenplays ['In the Heart of the Country' and 'Waiting for the Barbarians']. Edited by Hermann Wittenberg. J. M. COETZEE.
Two Screenplays ['In the Heart of the Country' and 'Waiting for the Barbarians']. Edited by Hermann Wittenberg

Two Screenplays ['In the Heart of the Country' and 'Waiting for the Barbarians']. Edited by Hermann Wittenberg

Cape Town, UCT Press, 2014 (first edition).

Large octavo, 210 pages.

Card covers; a fine copy.

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. 'The two screenplays published in this book are original and compelling cinematic adaptations of two of his novels ... They give an unprecedented insight into the fictional world of the novels and also reveal new aspects of Coetzee's literary craft. The screenplays are autonomous texts in their own right, allowing readers to gauge Coetzee's approach to adaptation, which takes markedly different forms in each of the two envisaged films.

Together with the Introduction which traces the complex history of Coetzee's relationship with the film industry - and explains why the film scripts remained unproduced - these screenplays make a significant contribution to South African literary and cultural studies' (rear cover blurb).

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