New Releases by J.M. Coetzee

1869 yılının sonbaharında, ünlü Rus yazar Fyodor Mihayloviç Dostoyevski, gönüllü bir sürgün olarak yaşadığı Almanya’dan Petersburg’a çağrılır. Ellisine merdiven dayayan, mutsuz ve öfkeli yazar, alacaklılarına yakalanma tehlikesine, gizli polisten korkmasına rağmen sahte bir ad kullanarak döner Petersburg’a. Üvey oğlu Pavel’in gizemli ve beklenmedik ölümüdür dönüş nedeni. Kederli Dostoyevski, çok sevdiği halde uzak düştüğü Pavel’in ölümünün ardındaki sırrı öğrenmeden huzur bulamayacaktır. Oğlunun ölümü intihar mıdır yoksa cinayet mi? Pavel, üvey babasını sevmiş midir yoksa ondan nefret mi etmiştir? Şiddet eylemlerine girişerek devleti ve tüm kurumlarını devirmeye çalışan devrimci Neçayev’e bağlılık yemini edenlerden biri midir? Dostoyevski’nin, Pavel’in ev sahibesiyle ilişkisi nasıl sonuçlanacaktır? Ünlü yazar, Pavel’in ölümünün izini sürerken kendi kimliğiyle ve hayattaki duruşuyla ilgili gerçeklerle de yüzleşmek zorunda kalır. J.M. Coetzee, romanında Dostoyevski’yi yeniden yaratırken zoru başarıyor; bir başka yazarın, Dostoyevski’nin kafasının içinden yazıyor; insan zihninin kimi zaman son derece itici çelişkilerini cesaretle ve riske girerek ortaya koyuyor; kurduğu dünyada ve yarattığı karakterlerde, Dostoyevski’nin romanlarının karanlık ortamını, ruhsal çözümlemelerini ustalıkla yansıtıyor. Petersburg’lu Usta aynı zamanda müthiş bir değişimin eşiğindeki Rus toplumunun da dönemsel bir tablosu.

From author of Waiting for the Barbarians and Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee. J.M. Coetzee''s latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. In a South Africa turned by war, Michael K. sets out to take his ailing mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. This life affirming novel goes to the center of human experience—the need for an interior, spiritual life; for some connections to the world in which we live; and for purity of vision.

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. A specialist in psychological warfare is driven to breakdown and madness by the stresses of a project of macabre ingenuity to win the war in Vietnam. Both the 18th-century Jacobus Coetzee and the 20th-century Eugene Dawn are in the business of pushing back the frontiers of knowledge and are dealers in death who denounce their own humanity and spurn their feelings of guilt. In these two narratives, Coetzee has crystallized in their absurdity and horror the extremes of scientific evangelism and heroic exploration.

J. M. Coetzee recrea la figura de Fiódor Dostoievski, el gran novelista del siglo XIX, en una obra de ficción que es a la vez un apasionante relato de misterio y un documentado retrato psicológico. Un novelista ruso exiliado regresa a San Petersburgo para conocer las circunstancias que rodean la muerte de su hijastro Pavel. Obsesivamente asediado por el recuerdo, se ve inmerso en la violencia revolucionaria de 1869. Reseña: «Ahora le llega el Nobel a Coetzee, y uno no puede sino alegrarse por él, por la Academia sueca, y también pensar que el mundo, pese a su tremendo desorden habitual, todavía se molesta de vez en cuando en poner en orden algún detalle.» Javier Marías

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.

Nadine Gordimer has written of J.M. Coetzee that his vision goes to the nerve-centre of being. What he finds there is more than most people will ever know about themselves, and he conveys it with a brilliant writer''s mastery of tension and elegance. Doubling the Point takes the reader to the center of that vision. These essays and interviews, documenting Coetzee''s longtime engagement with his own culture, and with modern culture in general, constitute a literary autobiography.