Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
Fall 2008
Abstract
Like Stranger Shores (2000), Inner Workings collects J. M. Coetzee’s recent literary essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books or as introductions. Bound together, they accrue a taste and texture that readers might not have suspected if they encountered these essays in their original publications. Coetzee engages a compelling cluster of twentieth-century writers, including, among others, Italo Svevo, Walter Benjamin, Paul Celan, W. G. Sebald, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, Gabriel García Márquez, V. S. Naipaul, and, likely of special interest to this journal’s readers, Philip Roth. Walt Whitman is the lonely denizen of the nineteenth century.
Publisher
Purdue University Press
City
West Lafayette, IN
Repository Citation
Rando, D. (2008). Inner workings: Literary essays 2000-2005 [Review of the book Inner workings: Literary essays 2000-2005, by J.M. Coetzee]. Philip Roth Studies, 4(2), 196-198.
Publication Information
Philip Roth Studies