J M Coetzee

Writers on Writers

Ceridwen Dovey

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English

Black Inc
01 October 2018

Memoirs; Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: post-colonial literature

Series: Writers on Writers

'I was born in the year J.M. Coetzee published his third novel, Waiting for the Barbarians. My mother read this dark, disturbing book with its multiple scenes of torture as she breastfed me at night, while my older sister slept and the house was quiet. It was 1980. The apartheid government had declared a state of emergency in the face of growing internal revolt, and my parents were thinking of leaving South Africa again.'

For Ceridwen Dovey, J.M. Coetzee 'has always been there, an unseen but strongly felt presence in our small family drama'. As a child, she observed with fascination her mother's immersion in Coetzee's writing as she worked on what would become the first critical study of his early novels. Even now, as a writer herself, Ceridwen's relationship with Coetzee's books is still mediated by her mother's readings of them- to get to him, she must first step through her mother's formidable mind. With tenderness and insight, Dovey draws on this personal history to explore the Nobel Prize-winner's work - how his books 'do theory' on themselves - while also tracing the intellectual heritage that has been passed from mother to daughter.

In the Writers on Writers series, leading writers reflect on another Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative, crisp and written from a practitioner's perspective, the series starts a fresh conversation between past and present, writer and reader. It sheds light on the craft of writing, and introduces some intriguing and talented authors and their work.

By: Ceridwen Dovey
Imprint: Black Inc
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 187mm, Width: 121mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 208g
ISBN: 9781760640613
ISBN 10: 1760640611
Series: Writers on Writers
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 01 October 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ceridwen Dovey was born in South Africa and grew up between South Africa and Australia. Her debut novel, Blood Kin, was published in fifteen countries and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Award. Her second book, Only the Animals, won the inaugural 2014 Readings New Australian Writing Award, and her new novel, In the Garden of the Fugitives, was published earlier this year. She writes non-fiction regularly for newyorker.com and The Monthly, and lives in Sydney.

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J M Coetzee

Writers on Writers

Ceridwen Dovey

$22.99

Hardback

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