Description: New essays examining the intellectual allegiances of Coetzee, arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of fiction in English today and a deeply intellectual and philosophical writer.
Brief description: Tim Mehigan is professor of German and head of the Department of German and Russian at the University of Melbourne.
Review Quotes: Gathers together some of the world's leading Coetzee scholars and philosophers in an attempt to explore not just the influence but the mechanics of the influence that Coetzee's reading has had on his work...This is a collection that those who are interested in the work of Coetzee should read. The essays are excellent [and] ultimately remind the reader that the key to unfolding the difficult, elliptical, bewildering moments of Coetzee's fiction might lie in the conversations that it holds with the works of others.-- "WASAFIRI"