New Releases by J.M. Coetzee

A pianist falls grandly, helplessly in love in this elegant new novella from the twice-Booker Prize winner The Pole tells the story of Wittold Walccyzkiecz, a vigorous, white-haired pianist, who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his Barcelona concert. Although Beatriz, who is married, is initially unimpressed by Wittold, she soon finds herself pursued and ineluctably swept into his world. As he sends her letters, extends countless invitations to travel, and even visits her husband''s summer home in Mallorca, their unlikely relationship blossoms, though only on her terms. As the power struggle between them intensifies -- Is it Beatriz who limits their passion by controlling her emotions? Or is it Wittold, trying to force into life his dream of love? Evocative of Joyce''s ''The Dead,'' The Pole is a haunting work, evoking the ''inexhaustible palette of sensations, from blind love to compassion'' (El País) typical of Coetzee''s finest novels. Published together with five exceptional stories, this new work from one of our greatest writers is a must for all literary connoisseurs.

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.

Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. J. M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. He argues that a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalation tends to overtake the rivals in any field ruled by censorship. From Osip Mandelstam commanded to compose an ode in praise of Stalin, to Breyten Breytenbach writing poems under and for the eyes of his prison guards, to Aleksander Solzhenitsyn engaging in a trial of wits with the organs of the Soviet state, Giving Offense focuses on the ways authors have historically responded to censorship. It also analyzes the arguments of Catharine MacKinnon for the suppression of pornography and traces the operations of the old South African censorship system. "The most impressive feature of Coetzee''s essays, besides his ear for language, is his coolheadedness. He can dissect repugnant notions and analyze volatile emotions with enviable poise."—Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "Those looking for simple, ringing denunciations of censorship''s evils will be disappointed. Coetzee explicitly rejects such noble tritenesses. Instead . . . he pursues censorship''s deeper, more fickle meanings and unmeanings."—Kirkus Reviews "These erudite essays form a powerful, bracing criticism of censorship in its many guises."—Publishers Weekly "Giving Offense gets its incisive message across clearly, even when Coetzee is dealing with such murky theorists as Bakhtin, Lacan, Foucault, and René; Girard. Coetzee has a light, wry sense of humor."—Bill Marx, Hungry Mind Review "An extraordinary collection of essays."—Martha Bayles, New York Times Book Review "A disturbing and illuminating moral expedition."—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review

The provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee "Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we''ve finished reading it." —The New Yorker At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. When an affair with a student leaves him jobless, shunned by friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife, he retreats to his daughter Lucy''s smallholding. David''s visit becomes an extended stay as he attempts to find meaning in his one remaining relationship. Instead, an incident of unimaginable terror and violence forces father and daughter to confront their strained relationship and the equallity complicated racial complexities of the new South Africa. 2024 marks the 25th Anniversary of the publication of Disgrace

Following on from Stranger Shores, which contained J.M. Coetzee''s essays from 1986 to 1999, Inner Workings gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005. Of the writers discussed in the first half of the book, several - Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Sandor Marai - lived through the Austro-Hungarian fin de siècle and felt the influence of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Freud. Coetzee further explores the work of six of twentieth-century German literature''s greatest writers: Robert Musil, Robert Walser, Walter Benjamin (the Arcades Project), Joseph Roth, Gunter Grass, W.G. Sebald, and the poet Paul Celan in his ''wrestlings with the German language''. There is an essay on Graham Greene''s Brighton Rock and on the short fiction of Samuel Beckett, a writer whom Coetzee has long admired. American literature is strongly represented from Walt Whitman, through William Faulkner, Saul Bellow and Arthur Miller to Philip Roth. Coetzee rounds off the collection with essays on three fellow Nobel laureates: Nadine Gordimer, Gabriel García Márquez and V.S. Naipaul.