“ In these essays, Coetzee is doing for the writers who came before him what I imagine he hopes will be done for him by the writers who will follow. He is gravedigging, with probity, with the greatest reverence for the craft they share, and in this way is saying thank you in the only way one writer can really say it to another, which is by writing about them well. ”
Benjamin Ogden, The New York Times Book Review
“ To read Late Essays ... has the effect of watching someone look for the secret, difficult rub of creativity. ”
Anna Funder, The Sydney Morning Herald
“ A writer of JM Coetzee’s stature needs no preamble… This book emerges as an engaging series of master classes in novel writing, from which we might distil a selection of dos and don’ts ”
Lauren Elkin, The Guardian
“ J.M. Coetzee's essays are filtered through boundless reserves of knowledge, wisdom and reading...A spare, dry sense of humour...Not a single page goes by in this collection when you don't learn something ”
Spectator
“ Coetzee remains a highly original thinker, able to take a much-dissected novel such as Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and offer an appreciation that stretches the boundaries of the reading experience. The most intriguing essay is one on Philip Roth, a rare occasion where Coetzee tackles one of his contemporaries ”
Tobias Grey, Financial Times
Hardback
9780143783374
August 28, 2017
Knopf Australia
304 pages
EBook
9780143783381
August 28, 2017
Random House Australia
304 pages
