In a Cold Country
Michael Wood: Coetzee’s Grumpy Voice, 4 October 2007
Diary of a Bad Year
by J.M. Coetzee.
Harvill, 231 pp., £16.99, September 2007,978 1 84655 120 8 Show More
by J.M. Coetzee.
Harvill, 231 pp., £16.99, September 2007,
Inner Workings: Essays 2000-2005
by J.M. Coetzee.
Harvill, 304 pp., £17.99, March 2007,978 1 84655 045 4 Show More
by J.M. Coetzee.
Harvill, 304 pp., £17.99, March 2007,
“... included in Stranger Shores (2001), opens: ‘Born in the autumn years of the Habsburg Empire, Robert Musil served His Imperial and Royal Majesty in one bloody continental convulsion and died halfway through the even worse convulsion that followed.’ A Musil piece in Inner Workings, which takes up some material from the earlier essay ... ”