Professor Peter McDonald gives a talk on the work of South African Nobel Laureate, J.M. Coetzee In the talk, Professor McDonald sets out the various less-than-great guises of the writer in South African Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee's fiction. He goes on to consider passages from Foe (1986) and Disgrace (1999) to highlight Coetzee's linguistic disruptiveness that might be considered traits of postmodern or post-colonial writing. In these close readings, Professor McDonald demonstrates how in just a few words, we can see that J.M. Coetzee is a great writer.
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