Item #125587 Giving Offense. Essays on Censorship. J. M. COETZEE.
Giving Offense. Essays on Censorship

Giving Offense. Essays on Censorship

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1996 (first edition).

Octavo, xii (last blank), 289 pages.

Quarter cloth and contrasting papered boards; top corner of about 50 consecutive leaves lightly bumped, with tiny dogear creases to the corner tips of a handful of them; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little sunned on the spine and slightly bumped at the head of the spine.

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 essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. Subscribing neither to the myth of the writer as a moral giant nor to that of the writer as persecuted innocent, Coetzee argues that a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalation tends to overtake the rivals in any field ruled by censorship' (dustwrapper blurb).

Item #125587

Price (AUD): $300.00

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