Bøker av J.M. Coetzee

Coetzee - soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson and Johnny DeppFor decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is.

In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies.

En mann og en gutt har krysset havet og kommer til et nytt land. Her blir de tildelt et navn, alder og losji mens de lærer seg spansk. Som Simón og David navigerer de seg fram til relokaliseringssenteret i sentrum av Novilla, hvor byråkratene behandler dem høflig, om enn ikke nødvendigvis hjelpsomt. Simón finner seg en jobb ved kornmottaket på havnen. Arbeidet er uvant og slitsomt, men snart blir han kjent med de andre havnearbeiderne. I pausene har de filosofiske samtaler om arbeidets verdighet og ser ut til å trives. Nå må han gjøre det han kan for å finne guttens mor. Han har i likhet med alle andre som kommer til dette nye landet, fått hukommelsen hvisket ut.

Interviewees describe an awkward man still living with his father, a man who insists on performing dull manual labour. His family regard him with suspicion and he is dogged by rumours: that he crossed the authorities in America, that he writes poetry.

________________'This anthology will help turn your intellectual understanding of oppression into an emotional one' - New Statesman'Thanks for being who you are and for giving us such exposure to wonderful people. Palestine is proud of you' - Suad Amiry________________The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008. Bringing together writers from all corners of the globe, it aims to help Palestinians break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupation, to strengthen their artistic links with the rest of the world, and to reaffirm, in the words of Edward Said, 'the power of culture over the culture of power'.Celebrating the tenth anniversary of PalFest, This Is Not a Border is a collection of essays, poems and stories from some of the world's most distinguished artists, responding to their experiences at this unique festival. Both heartbreaking and hopeful, their gathered work is a testament to the power of literature to promote solidarity and courage in the most desperate of situations.Contributors: Susan Abulhawa, Suad Amiry, Victoria Brittain, Jehan Bseiso, Teju Cole, Molly Crabapple, Selma Dabbagh, Mahmoud Darwish, Najwan Darwish, Geoff Dyer, Yasmin El-Rifae, Adam Foulds, Ru Freeman, Omar Robert Hamilton, Suheir Hammad, Nathalie Handal, Mohammed Hanif, Jeremy Harding, Rachel Holmes, John Horner, Remi Kanazi, Brigid Keenan, Mercedes Kemp, Omar El-Khairy, Nancy Kricorian, Sabrina Mahfouz, Jamal Mahjoub, Henning Mankell, Claire Messud, China Miéville, Pankaj Mishra, Deborah Moggach, Muiz, Maath Musleh, Michael Palin, Ed Pavlic, Atef Abu Saif, Kamila Shamsie, Raja Shehadeh, Gillian Slovo, Ahdaf Soueif, Linda Spalding, Will Sutcliffe, Alice WalkerWith messages from China Achebe, Michael Ondaatje and J. M. Coetzee________________'Every literary act, whether it is a great epic poem or an honest piece of journalism or a simple nonsense tale for children is a blow against the forces of stupidity and ignorance and darkness . The Palestine Festival of Literature exists to do just that - and I salute it for its work. Not only this year but for as long as it is necessary' - Philip Pullman

A fascinating dialogue on the human inclination to make up stories between a Nobel Prize-winning writer and a psychotherapist. What kind of truth do the stories created by patient and therapist aim to uncover: objective truth or the shifting and subjective truth of memories explored and re-experienced in the safety of the therapeutic relationship?

A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee - a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him, former friends and colleagues.

Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world - a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public: the presentation of a major award at an American college where she is required to deliver a lecture;

This is a book about languages, what languages can and what they cannot do.Speaking in Tongues is a brilliant treatise from Nobel-Laureate novelist J. M. Coetzee in collaboration with leading international translator Mariana Dimópulous. Presented as a dialogue, Coetzee and Dimópulous's provocative work digs into questions that have plagued writers for centuries. They invite readers to grapple with the idea that language is actually culture's unique reflection into words. The difference between cultures, and in turn langauges, leads to the almost impossible task of the translator: to liberate the language imprisoned in a text and instill it into her recreation of that work.Along the journey, the authors also delve into topics such as which languages are gendered, the threat of monolingualism, and the possibility that mathematics could tell the truth about everything in the universe. In the tradition of Walter Benjamin's seminal The Task of the Translator, Speaking in Tongues, with its wide range of observations and propositions, emerges as a work of philosophy on its own, shining a light on some of the most important linguistic and philological issues of our time.

Etter en konsert i Barcelona faller den polske pianisten Witold for arrangøren Beatriz. Hun gjengleder ikke følelsene, i alle fall ikke innledningsvis. Med slående utholdenhet sender han henne musikk, brev, poesi, invitasjoner til å reise. Etter hvert, nærmeste motvillig, men også på egne premisser, begynner hun å utforske hans verden.

Etter Jesu barndom og Jesu skoledager fullfører nobelprisvinneren sin mesterlige trilogi med et nytt mesterverk. David er en veslevoksen gutt på 10 år, god i fotball og elsker å spille sammen med vennene sine. Faren hans, Simón og hunden Bolívar pleier å se på mens moren, Inés jobber i en klesbutikk. David er en gutt som stiller spørsmål ved det meste og utfordrer sine foreldre og alle andre autoritetspersoner i sitt liv. På danseskolen danser han akkurat som han vil, han nekter å gjøre matteoppgaver og leser ingen andre bøker enn Don Quixote. En dag invitere Julio Fabricante, bestyreren på et barnehjem i nærheten, ham og hans venner til å være med å lage et ordentlig fotballag. David bestemmer seg for å forlate forelderene for å komme og bo hos Julio, men snart er han i ferd med å gå til grunne av en mystisk sykdom. I Jesu død fortsetter J.M. Coetzee å utforske mening i en verden tømt for minner, men full av spørsmål.

Jesu skoledager er en fascinerende og stilsikker ny roman fra nobelprisvinner J.M. Coetzee, og oppfølger til Jesu barndom, som kom på norsk i 2014.I Jesu skoledager fortsetter Coetzee fortellingen om den lille gutten Davíd, som sammen med Simón og Inés har flyttet til den lille byen Estrella. Davíd er en gutt som stiller spørsmål ved alt og ikke liker å innordne seg. Nå begynner han på det lille, private Akademiet for dans og ser ut til å finne seg godt til rette.Men kanskje viktigere enn plott er dette en bok som forholder seg til filosofiske spørsmål: Hva er kjærlighet? Frihet? Begjær? Å være et menneske? Som i sine tidligere bøker skriver Coetzee knapt og sterkt og med en suveren kjennskap til litteraturen og kulturhistorien, på en måte som få andre kan måle seg med i dag. Han drar opp grunnleggende universelle problemstillinger rundt hvordan det er å vokse opp og utvikle seg som menneske, og å stadig bli dratt mellom følelser og intellekt.

Den berømte forfatteren John Coetzee er død, og en ung forfatter arbeider med en biografi om Coetzee. Han intervjuer personer som har stått ham nær på 70-tallet, da Coetzee bodde i Sør-Afrika, men ikke hadde slått igjennom som forfatter. Ut fra disse samtalene dannes et bilde av en mann som ikke har hatt evne til å åpne seg for andre mennesker, og som har mislykkes i de fleste av sine menneskelige relasjoner. Dette er den tredje og frittstående delen av den selvbiografiske trilogien som begynte med Barndom og Ungdom.

Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee are respectively responsible for some of the great contemporary works of fiction: Auster's The New York Trilogy or Coetzee's Disgrace are only two of these authors' legendary works. In Here and Now, these remarkable thinkers are brought together in print for the first time.Although Auster and Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, 'God willing, strike sparks off each other.' Here and Now is the result of that proposal: an epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. Over three years their letters touched on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, film festivals to Israel and Palestine, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art, family, marriage, friendship, and love.Their correspondence offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of these two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now, and reflects two sharp intellects whose pleasure in each other's friendship is apparent on every page.

An astonishing new masterpiece from the Nobel and twice Booker Prize-winning author of Disgrace and SummertimeAfter crossing oceans, a man and a boy - both strangers to each other - arrive in a new land.

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016Observer and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2016David is the small boy who is always asking questions. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky.

M.M. Coetzee provides insight into his childhood through his own lens. The photographs are an intriguing visual chronicle of Coetzee's life. Although many know him as a serious and philosophical writer, here we see his playful, boyish side and the search for his own identity.

Late Essays gathers together Coetzee's literary essays since 2006. 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.

Offers an epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. This book includes letters that touched on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, film festivals to incest, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art, family, marriage, friendship, and love.

What, he asks, is the origin of the state and the nature of the relationship between citizen and state? How should the citizen of a modern democracy react to the state's willingness to set aside moral considerations and civil liberties in its war on terror, a war that includes the use of torture?

A collection of the author's literary essays from 2000 to 2005. It discusses writers such as Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Sandor Marai who lived through the Austro-Hungarian fin de siecle and felt the influence of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Freud.

A collection of 29 pieces on books, writing, photography, and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. With literary subjects ranging from Defoe through Rilke and Kafka to the giants of the 20th century, those who admire Coetzee as a novelist can also read his literary criticism.

But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart.

'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The TimesAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student.

Set in 1869, when Dostoevsky was summoned from Germany to St Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, this novel is at once a compelling mystery steeped in the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia and a brilliant and courageous meditation on authority and rebellion, art and imagination.

Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousness starts to drift and the line between fact and the workings of her excited imagination becomes blurred.

A megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe for undermining the 'natural' order of his universe with their anarchic rival order, mocking him and subjecting him to the humiliations of his own all too palpable flesh.