Table of Contents
On J.M. Coetzee, His Man and He: Prologue . . . 9 Ludmiła Gruszewska Blaim (University of Gdańsk, Poland)
Dead end in the beginning:
Th e rhetoric of openings in the novels by J.M. Coetzee . . . 15 Hania A.M. Nashef
(American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) Resisting the cul-de-sac in Disgrace,
Master of Petersburg and Life & Times of Michael K . . . 31 Duncan McColl Chesney (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Michael K.: J.M. Coetzee between Beckett and Kafk a . . . 51 Grzegorz Maziarczyk
(John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin, Poland) A day in the life of a wounded animal: Alex Harvey’s
television adaptation of Th e Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee . . . 65 Bożena Kucała (Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland)
Writers at the Gate: Last pronouncements
in J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello and Diary of a Bad Year . . . 81 A.C. Coubleigh (Independent Scholar)
J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man: An egress from Slow Man . . . 95 Nedine Moonsamy (Rhodes University, Republic of South Africa)
Th e Invitation in J.M. Coetzee’s autobiographical triad:
Boyhood, Youth and Summertime. . . . 113 Derek Attridge (University of York, United Kingdom)
Th e Childhood of Jesus and the limits of rationality . . . 137
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Jan Wilm (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) It Takes All Kinds to Make a World:
Th e Worlds of J.M. Coetzee’s Th e Childhood of Jesus . . . 145 Robert Kusek (Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland)
Between Friends? Here and Now, or an “Epistolary Dialogue”
between J.M. Coetzee and Paul Auster . . . 171
Index . . . 193
