A new collection of twenty-three literary essays from the Nobel Prize–winning author. J. M. Coetzee’s latest novel.

J. M. Coetzee is not only one of the most acclaimed fiction writers in the world, he is also an accomplished and insightful literary critic. In Late Essays: 2006–2016, a thought-provoking collection of twenty-three pieces, he examines the work of some of the world’s greatest writers, from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Goethe and Irène Némirovsky to Coetzee’s contemporary Philip Roth. Challenging yet accessible, literary master Coetzee writes these essays with great clarity and precision, offering readers an illuminating and wise analysis of a remarkable list of works of international literature that span three centuries.

1.Daniel Defoe, Roxana
2.Nathaniel Hawthrone, The Scarlet Letter
3..Ford Madox Ford, The Good Solidier
4.Philip Roth's Tale of the Plague
5.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...The Sorrows of young Werther
6.Translating Holder.
7.Heinrich von Kleist: Two Stories
8.Robert Walser, , The Assistant
9.Gustave Flaubert, Made Bovary
10.Irene Nemirovsky, Jewish Writer
11.Juan Ramon Jimenez, Platcro and I
12.Antonio Di Benedetto, Zama
13.Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan illyrich
14.On Zbigniew Herbert
15.The Young Samuel Beckett
16.Samuel Beckett, Watt
17.Samuel Beckett, Molloy
18.Eight ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett
19.Late Patrick White
20.Patrick White. The Solid Mandala
21.The Poetry of Les Murray
22.Reading Gerald Murnane
23.The Diary of Hendrik Witbooi