Andrew's review
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 by J.M. Coetzee
This book is valuable for two reasons: the writing about the individual authors, and seeing Coetzee's perspective on these authors. Unfortunately, each essay is usually only valuable for one of the reasons. But that's a minor complaint considering how much better Coetzee writes about these authors than almost every other living critic. He knows the languages that many of the works are translated from, and that helps him illuminate things that would be lost on the rest of us.
MUCH better than his other collections of essays.
MUCH better than his other collections of essays.
