by J.M. Coetzee · DEBATE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483065938
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«Costas extrañas» is the collection of literary criticism essays by Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee, published by Debate in paperback (386 pages, in Spanish).
Essays written between 1986 and 1999 in which Coetzee reflects on world literature, the idea of the classic, and the memory of reading. He analyzes Kafka, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Musil, Lessing, Brodsky, Borges and Rushdie, and characters such as Robinson Crusoe, with a critical eye that combines erudition and fascination with his masters.
It belongs to the Referencias collection. It was originally published as Stranger Shores (2001) and the translation is by Pedro Tena.
For readers of literary criticism and essays, and for those wishing to approach the references and readings of a Nobel Prize-winning author.
John Maxwell Coetzee AC FRSL OMG is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.
