White Writing. On the Culture of Letters in South Africa
New Haven, Yale University Press, 1988 (first edition).
Octavo, x (last blank), 193 pages with a full-page illustration.
Cloth; boards slightly bowed; essentially a fine copy with the excellent dustwrapper lightly sunned on the spine, and the rear panel lightly scored and rubbed with one tiny tear.
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. In his first book-length work of criticism, in 'seven vigorous essays, Coetzee discusses the literary genres and works of major white authors from his homeland of South Africa in the years before World War II. Describing the early narratives of exploration and travel, the melancholy pastoral novels, the landscape poetry obsessed with barrenness and emptiness, he paints a picture of a developing literature trying uneasily to appropriate through the imagination a corner of Africa for the white man' (dustwrapper blurb)'.
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Price (AUD):
$450.00