Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews
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Author's NoteEditor's Introduction1Beckett15Interview17The Comedy of Point of View in Beckett's Murphy (1970)31The Manuscript Revisions of Beckett's Watt (1972)39Samuel Beckett and the Temptations of Style (1973)43Remembering Texas (1984)50The Poetics of Reciprocity55Interview57Achterberg's "Ballade van de gasfitter": The Mystery of I and You (1977)69The First Sentence of Yvonne Burgess' The Strike (1976)91A Note on Writing (1984)94Jerusalem Prize Acceptance Speech (1987)96Popular Culture101Interview103Captain America in American Mythology (1976)107The Burden of Consciousness in Africa (1977)115Four Notes on Rugby (1978)121Triangular Structures of Desire in Advertising (1980)127Syntax139Interview141The Rhetoric of the Passive in English (1980)147The Agentless Sentence as Rhetorical Device (1980)170Isaac Newton and the Ideal of a Transparent Scientific Language (1982)181Kafka195Interview197Time, Tense, and Aspect in Kafka's "The Burrow" (1981)210Robert Musil's Stories of Women (1986)233Autobiography and Confession241Interview243Confession and Double Thoughts: Tolstoy, Rousseau, Dostoevsky (1985)251Obscenity and Censorship295Interview297The Taint of the Pornographic: Defending (against) Lady Chatterley (1988)302Censorship in South Africa (1990)315South African Writers333Interview335Man's Fate in the Novels of Alex La Guma (1974)344Into the Dark Chamber: The Writer and the South African State (1986)361Athol Fugard, Notebooks, 1960-1977 (1984)369Breyten Breytenbach, True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist and Mouroir (1985)375Nadine Gordimer, The Essential Gesture (1989)382Retrospect389Interview391Notes397Sources and Credits433Index435
\ Library JournalCoetzee is known here for his fiction, set in his native South Africa, but less so for his criticism. This collection of essays should enhance his reputation. Coetzee examines such literary giants as Samuel Beckett (stylistically analyzing Watt via a computer-generated diagram in one essay), Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, D.H. Lawrence, and fellow South African writers Athol Fugard, Breyten Breytenbach, and Nadine Gordimer. Also included are sections on poetics, popular culture, syntax, and censorship. Atwell interviews Coetzee at the beginning of each section to complete a retrospective analysis of the essays; the result is a literary autobiography of stature. Recommended for academic as well as large public libraries.-- Ann Irvine, Montgomery Cty. P.L., Md.\ \
