Inner Workings: Literary Essays: 2000-2008 - Softcover

"Coetzee the critic is every bit as good as Coetzee the novelist."-"Irish Times"
"Coetzee writes well about the technicalities of literature: like an engineer he dismantles the texts and suggests ways in which they might run more efficiently."-"Scotland on Sunday"

a Inner Workings is Coetzeeas master class, and he honors us, too, by letting us sit in on it.a
aWalter Kirn, "The New York Times Book Review"
a Coetzee describes his subjects using a variety of approaches, in a highly readable style.a
a"Los Angeles Times"

Inner Workings is Coetzee s master class, and he honors us, too, by letting us sit in on it.
Walter Kirn, "The New York Times Book Review"
Coetzee describes his subjects using a variety of approaches, in a highly readable style.
"Los Angeles Times"

? Inner Workings is Coetzee's master class, and he honors us, too, by letting us sit in on it.?
?Walter Kirn, "The New York Times Book Review"

? Coetzee describes his subjects using a variety of approaches, in a highly readable style.?
?"Los Angeles Times"

A new collection of essays and literary criticism from the respected Nobel Prize-winning author of Stranger Shores is comprised of twenty recently written pieces that examine the work of such twentieth-century writers as Samuel Beckett, Günter Grass, and Gabriel García Márquez. Reprint.