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Coetzee's acceptance speech for the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature was delivered in the form a short story titled 'He and His Man'. It was delivered at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on 7 December 2004, and subsequently published as an essay.
'The story features Robinson Crusoe, long after his return from the island, reflecting on death and spectacle, writing and allegory, solitude and sociability, as he searches his mind for some true understanding of the "man" who writes of and for him.'
Source: Amazon website, www.amazon.com
Sighted: 20/11/2006
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Epigraph: But to return to my new companion. I was greatly delighted with him, and made it my business to teach him everything that was proper to make him useful, handy, and helpful; but especially to make him speak, and understand me when I spoke; and he was the aptest scholar there ever was. -- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
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A Case of Story: Coetzee, Gordimer, Bosman...!
2004
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criticism
— Appears in: Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa , vol. 16 no. 1 2004; (p. 1 - 14)'The paper suggests that the imaginative climate in South Africa after apartheid is conducive to shorter forms of fiction and that it is propitious, therefore, to pay tribute to Herman Charles Bosman. (The year 2005 will see the centenary of this storywriter's birth.) Revisiting Bosman, I ask why the short story – possibly more ‘popular’ than the novel in terms of a reading audience in South Africa – continues in literary education to be a relatively neglected form. This is the case despite the fact that, besides Bosman, South Africa has produced considerable talents in shorter fiction, including its two Nobel prizewinners for literature, Gordimer and Coetzee.' (Publication abstract)
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A Case of Story: Coetzee, Gordimer, Bosman...!
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa , vol. 16 no. 1 2004; (p. 1 - 14)'The paper suggests that the imaginative climate in South Africa after apartheid is conducive to shorter forms of fiction and that it is propitious, therefore, to pay tribute to Herman Charles Bosman. (The year 2005 will see the centenary of this storywriter's birth.) Revisiting Bosman, I ask why the short story – possibly more ‘popular’ than the novel in terms of a reading audience in South Africa – continues in literary education to be a relatively neglected form. This is the case despite the fact that, besides Bosman, South Africa has produced considerable talents in shorter fiction, including its two Nobel prizewinners for literature, Gordimer and Coetzee.' (Publication abstract)
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