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  1. The world after fiction : J. M. Coetzee's "The Childhood of Jesus"
    Author: Robinson, Benjamin Lewis
    Published: 2021

    Opponents of World Literature fear that its advent marks the end of the 'work of literature'. J. M. Coetzee's "The Childhood of Jesus" (2013) presents a world in which the work of literature has indeed been forgotten. Migrants arrive in a new life... more

     

    Opponents of World Literature fear that its advent marks the end of the 'work of literature'. J. M. Coetzee's "The Childhood of Jesus" (2013) presents a world in which the work of literature has indeed been forgotten. Migrants arrive in a new life 'washed clean' of the burden of the European tradition. Simón, who dimly recalls the old life, feels that something is missing in the new. He longs for something altogether 'other'. Might Simón learn from the exceptional child David to perceive the 'likeness' in this world? Are we to read Coetzee's novel like Simón or like David - and with what consequence for our understanding of the work of literature in a time of World Literature?

     
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    Source: BASE Selection for Comparative Literature
    Language: English
    Media type: Article (edited volume)
    Format: Online
    DDC Categories: 800; 820
    Subjects: Coetzee; J. M; The Childhood of Jesus; Weltliteratur; Das Andere; Singularität; Derrida; Jacques; Don Quijote
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    creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess