EAN: 9783319601007

J M COETZEE AND THE ETHICS OF NARRATIVE TRANSGR...

This book is about the metanarrative and metafictional elements of J. M. Coetzee's novels. It
draws together authorship  readership  ethics  and formal analysis into one overarching
argument about how narratives work the boundary between art and life. On the basis of Coetzee's
writing  it reconsiders the concept of metalepsis  challenges common understandings of
self-reflexive discourse  and invites us to rethink our practice as critics and readers.This
study analyzes Coetzee's novels in three chapters organized thematically around the author's
relation with character  reader  and self. Author and character are discussed on the basis of
Foe  Slow Man  and Coetzee's Nobel lecture  'He and His Man'. Stories featuring the character
Elizabeth Costello  or the figuration Elizabeth Curren  serve to elaborate the relation of
author and reader. The study ends on a reading of Summertime  Diary of a Bad Year  and
Dusklands as Coetzee's engagement with autobiographical writing  analyzing the relation of
author and self. It will appeal to readers with an interest in literary and narrative theory as
much as to Coetzee scholars and advanced students.

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