1. Very much the tortoise: slowness and J.M. Coetzee -- 2. A slow method for a slow man: reading Coetzee, slowly -- 3. A goblin: why?: Coetzee's questions -- 4. What matters is that the contest is staged: Coetzee's slowing syntax -- 5. Meerlust: Coetzee and literalness -- 6. We make a leap: Coetzee's gaps -- 7. The legacy of Socrates: dialogue in and with Coetzee -- 8. Dark and unending: Coetzee's open-ended endings -- 9. An empty cube: Coetzee's irreal worlds.
Summary:
In this book, the author analyzes Coetzee's singular aesthetic style which, he argues, provokes the reader to read Coetzee's works slowly. The effected "slow reading" is developed from within Coetzee's oeuvre into a method specifically geared to analyzing Coetzee's works. In the course of this analysis, it is shown that his texts productively decelerate the reading process only to dynamize the reader's reflection in a way that may be termed philosophical.-- From publisher's description.
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