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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