Bøger af J. M. Coetzee

I betragtning af hans alder, tooghalvtreds og fraskilt, synes han selv, at han har løst problemet med sex ganske godt. Hver torsdag eftermiddag kører han ud til Green Point. Præcis klokken to trykker han på summerknappen ved indgangen til Windsor Mansions, nævner sit navn og træder ind. Ved døren til nr. 113 står Soraya og venter på ham. Sådan begynder historien om David Lurie. En desillusioneret litteraturprofessor i Capetown, der om aftenen kæmper med at komponere en kammeropera og ellers er tilfreds med 90 minutters kvindeligt selskab om ugen.En dag er Soraya pludselig væk. For at udfylde tomrummet indleder David Lurie et forhold til en af sine studerende. Efter en anklage for sexchikane bliver han tvunget til at tage sin afsked og flytter ud til sin datter Lucy på hendes ensomt beliggende gård. Opholdet udvikler sig til et mareridt, da et brutalt overfald vender op og ned på alle hans forestillinger og truer med at ødelægge hans datter.

Wittold is a vigorous, white-haired pianist and is infatuated with the stylish (and married) Beatriz after she helps organise his Barcelona concert. He sends her letters, extends countless invitations to travel, and even visits her husband's summer home in Mallorca. Their unlikely relationship blossoms, as does their intense power struggle.

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016Observer and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2016David is the small boy who is always asking questions. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky.

The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world. Costello's son, a physics professor, admires her literary achievements, but dreads his mother's lecturing on animal rights at the college where he teaches. His colleagues resist her argument that human reason is overrated and that the inability to reason does not diminish the value of life; his wife denounces his mother's vegetarianism as a form of moral superiority. At the dinner that follows her first lecture, the guests confront Costello with a range of sympathetic and skeptical reactions to issues of animal rights, touching on broad philosophical, anthropological, and religious perspectives. Painfully for her son, Elizabeth Costello seems offensive and flaky, but--dare he admit it?--strangely on target. Here the internationally renowned writer J. M. Coetzee uses fiction to present a powerfully moving discussion of animal rights in all their complexity. He draws us into Elizabeth Costello's own sense of mortality, her compassion for animals, and her alienation from humans, even from her own family. In his fable, presented as a Tanner Lecture sponsored by the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, Coetzee immerses us in a drama reflecting the real-life situation at hand: a writer delivering a lecture on an emotionally charged issue at a prestigious university. Literature, philosophy, performance, and deep human conviction--Coetzee brings all these elements into play. As in the story of Elizabeth Costello, the Tanner Lecture is followed by responses treating the reader to a variety of perspectives, delivered by leading thinkers in different fields. Coetzee's text is accompanied by an introduction by political philosopher Amy Gutmann and responsive essays by religion scholar Wendy Doniger, primatologist Barbara Smuts, literary theorist Marjorie Garber, and moral philosopher Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation. Together the lecture-fable and the essays explore the palpable social consequences of uncompromising moral conflict and confrontation.

An astonishing new masterpiece from the Nobel and twice Booker Prize-winning author of Disgrace and SummertimeAfter crossing oceans, a man and a boy - both strangers to each other - arrive in a new land.

En mand og en dreng ankommer til et nyt land efter at have krydset havet. Her bliver de hver tildelt et navn og en alder og interneret i en lejr, mens de lærer spansk, deres nye lands sprog. Som Simon og David finder de vej til relokaliseringscentret i byen Novilla, hvor bureaukratiet behandler dem høfligt men ikke nødvendigvis hjælpsomt. Simon finder et job på havnen. Arbejdet er rygbrækkende, men han falder snart til blandt sine nye kammerater, som i frokostpauserne fører lange filosofiske diskussioner om arbejdets værdighed.   Nu mangler han at finde drengens mor. Selvom han, som alle andre, der ankommer til dette nye land, ikke har blot den vageste erindring om tiden før ankomsten, er han overbevidst om, at han vil kunne genkende hende, når han ser hende.  Og en dag får Simon faktisk øje på en kvinde, som han er sikker på, er Davids mor. Han overtaler hende til at påtage sig rollen. Davids nye mor opdager snart, at han er noget særligt, klog, drømmende og med usædvanlige ideer om verden. Men skolen ser kun hans oprørske sind og insisterer på at sende ham på en specialskole langt væk. Hans nye mor modsætter sig, og det er Simon, der ender med at køre bilen, da de tre flygter over bjergene.   ”Jesu barndom” er en dybsindig, smuk og overraskende roman fra en meget stor forfatter.

This text presents an analysis of censorship from the perspective of a writer who has lived and worked under its shadow. Seeking to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring, Coetzee focuses on the ways authors have historically responded to censorship.

SCENER FRA PROVINSEN er den første samlede udgave af J.M. Coetzees tre bind med fiktionaliserede erindringer – tidligere udgivet hver for sig som henholdsvis DRENGEÅR, UNGDOMSÅR og SOMMERTID. Tilsammen udgør de tre bøger et på en gang fortvivlende og meget morsomt kunstnerportræt af en af vor tids største forfattere.