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Miguel de Cervantes and J.M. Coetzee: An Unacknowledged Paternity
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Coetzee as discussed by the authors pointed to the 17th-century Spanish writer, Miguel de Cervantes, as one important literary predecessor of the contemporary South African writer J.M. Coetzee, a relation that has generally passed unnoticed among critics.Abstract:
SummaryThis article points to the 17th-century Spanish writer, Miguel de Cervantes, as one important literary predecessor of the contemporary South African writer, J.M. Coetzee, a relation that has generally passed unnoticed among critics. This relation is brought to the foreground in Coetzee’s most recent novel, The Childhood of Jesus (2013), but it also underlies his previous ones, Age of Iron (1998), Disgrace (2000), and Slow Man (2005), as well as his critical pieces, “The Novel Today” (1988) and the “Jerusalem Prize Acceptance Speech” (1992b), all of which contain echoes of Cervantes’s masterpiece, Don Quixote ([1605, 1615]2005). My argument is that the conflict between imagination and reality, the novel and history, central in Coetzee’s fictional and non-fictional production, needs to be re-examined as a fundamentally Cervantine one. The adventures and fate of Don Quixote lie behind Coetzee’s exploration of whether literature may be an effective and ethical guide in our dealings with reality, whethe...read more
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‘God Knows Whether There Is a Dulcinea in This World or Not’: Idealised Passion and Undecidable Desire in J. M. Coetzee
TL;DR: In this paper, Lopez examines the male idealisation of the female figure that we find in many of J. M. Coetzee's works, together with their depiction of male-female relationships as characterised by a constant conflict between the real and the ideal, imagination and physicality.
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Growing Up Against Allegory: The Late Works of J. M. Coetzee
TL;DR: Coetzee's recent trilogy, The Childhood of Jesus (2013) and The Schooldays ofJesus (2016), are extremely strange. as discussed by the authors ) explores the connection between reading and writing allegory within the tradition of what constitutes a novel.
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Deplorable Quixotics@@@The Romantic Approach to "Don Quixote": A Critical History of the Romantic Tradition in "Quixote" Criticism
Alexander Welsh,Anthony Close +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a collection of essays about the chivalresque ideal ideal of Cervantes' Don Quixote as a burlesque novel and its relation to existentialism.
The Anatomy of Realism
TL;DR: In this paper, Cervantes' Don Quixote admits that the lady for whose love he has committed himself to knight errantry might not exist, and the Duchess decides on this occasion to taunt the Don with the fact of Dulcinea's non-existence, to present him with the base line of truth against which quixote's fantasies must always be measured.
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Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews
J. M. Coetzee,David Attwell +1 more
TL;DR: Beckett's point of view in "The Comedy of Point of View in Beckett's Murphy" (1970) and "The Temptations of Style" (1973).
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Age of Iron
TL;DR: Curren as discussed by the authors describes her relationship with the tramp, Vercueil, who becomes her silent companion and confessor as she tries to make her peace with the world.