Description
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000–2005 by J. M. Coetzee brings together twenty-one essays in which the Nobel Prize-winning novelist turns his attention to the work of other writers. Written between 2000 and 2005, the essays examine the lives, ideas, styles and literary techniques of some of the most important writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Italo Svevo, Robert Musil, Walter Benjamin, Paul Celan, Samuel Beckett, William Faulkner, Philip Roth and Gabriel García Márquez.
Many of the pieces originally appeared as reviews in The New York Review of Books or as introductions to new translations and editions. Coetzee also turns his critical eye to fellow Nobel laureate and South African writer Nadine Gordimer, as well as V. S. Naipaul. Thoughtful and closely argued, Inner Workings offers an opportunity to encounter these writers through the perspective of one of the world’s most accomplished novelists and literary critics.
