J. M. Coetzee
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John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and deco
Coetzee in 2023
Coetzee in Warsaw (2006)
November 2023, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide
Coetzee at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival
Waiting for the Barbarians
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Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by the South African writer J. M. Coetzee. First published in 1980, it was chosen by Penguin for its series Great Books of the 20th Century and won both the James
J. M. Coetzee
…conversation he is having with himself, in the form of multiple alter egos". These alter egos include a character type represented by the magistrate in Waiting for the Barbarians and David Lurie in Disgrace; another is a female proxy for himself, the "elderly, scholarly, world-weary novelist" Elizabeth Costello, a recurring…
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