JM Coetzee - Five Books for Critics

13th November 2007 with 1 Comment

Nobel Prize winner, J.M. Coetzee, gave the National Book Critics Circle a list of five books he believes reviewers should have in their libraries.
The Iliad. - the standard for the narrative of action.
Aristotle, Poetics. - the terms for all later debate on the truth claims of history versus the truth claims of poetry.
Cervantes, Don [...]

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Don Quixote

25th March 2006 with 6 Comments

I finished reading Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote last night. I’ve not been able to read it before but I got hold of the Edith Grosman translation which makes it much more accessible. It is a book which is deeply amusing but which, nevertheless, engages us in the human tragedy. The gentle Knight’s quest is [...]

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