Late Essays

A fascinating collection of essays on literary subjects ranging from Daniel Defoe to Samuel Beckett by a Nobel and Booker Prize-winning writerLate Essays gathers together J.M. Coetzee s literary essays from 2006 to 2017. The subjects covered in this stunning collection 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.