Late Essays

Stranger Shores, a collection of J.M. Coetzee s essays from 1986 to 1999 was followed by Inner Workings, which contained those from 2000 to 2005. Late Essays gathers together Coetzee s literary essays since 2006.The subjects covered range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee s contemporary Philip Roth. Coetzee has had a long-standing interest in German literature and here he engages with the work of Goethe, H lderlin, Kleist and Walser. There are four fascinating essays on fellow Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett and he looks at the work of three Australian writers: Patrick White, Les Murray and Gerald Murnane. There are essays too on Tolstoy s great novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich, on Flaubert s masterpiece Madame Bovary, and on the Argentine modernist Antonio Di Benedetto.J.M. Coetzee, a great novelist himself, is a wise and insightful guide to these works of international literature that span three centuries.