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1 J.M. Coetzee’s Provocative First Book Turns 50 This Year – and His Most Controversial Turns 25 Andrew Van Der Vlies , 2024 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 26 January 2024;

'J.M. Coetzee, one of the leading novelists of our age, turns 84 this year. Last year, he published The Pole and Other Stories, his 18th book (excluding volumes of criticism, commentary, letters and translations). Its flowering of mature style confirms that this writer remains at the top of his game.' 
1 The Costello Project Andrew Van Der Vlies , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee 2023; (p. 169-180)
1 On the Idea of a Handbook to the Works of J. M. Coetzee: 'Preposterous' [?] Andrew Van Der Vlies , Lucy Valerie Graham , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee 2023; (p. 3-14)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee Andrew Van Der Vlies (editor), Lucy Valerie Graham (editor), London : Bloomsbury Academic , 2023 27645142 2023 anthology criticism

'J. M. Coetzee – novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2003) – is widely recognized as one of the towering literary figures of the last half century. With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars from across the world, The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee offers the most comprehensive available exploration of the variety, range and significance of his work.

'The volume covers a wealth of topics, including:

'· The full span of Coetzee's work from his poetry to his essays and major fiction, including Waiting for the Barbarians, Disgrace and the Jesus novels
· Biographical details and archival approaches
· Coetzee's sources and influences, including engagements with Modernism, South African, Australian, Russian and Latin American literatures
· Interdisciplinary perspectives, including on visual cultures, music, philosophy, computational systems and translation.

'The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee provides indispensable scholarly perspectives, covers emerging debates and maps the future direction of Coetzee studies.' (Publication summary)
1 Coetzee’s Schreiner, Schreiner’s Coetzee: Provincialising Allegory Andrew Van Der Vlies , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Olive Schreiner : Writing Networks and Global Contexts 2023;
1 y separately published work icon Olive Schreiner : Writing Networks and Global Contexts Jade Munslow Ong (editor), Andrew Van Der Vlies (editor), Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2023 27644681 2023 anthology criticism 'This collection of essays considers the significance of South African-born writer, activist and thinker Olive Schreiner in international and multidisciplinary contexts in her time – and the ongoing relevance of her work to our own. A leading writer of New Woman Fiction at the fin de siècle, Schreiner influenced generations of readers, not to mention other writers. Taken together, these essays make the argument for a ‘new’ Schreiner Studies drawing on recent developments in scholarship on global and peripheral modernisms, activist networks and intersectionality, posthumanism, memory studies and intermediality. They position Schreiner’s work and legacy as significant for understanding literary and social archives, race and gender performance, and the rise of literary modernism in the global Anglosphere.' (Publication summary)
1 World Literature, the Opaque Archive, and the Untranslatable: J. M. Coetzee and Some Others Andrew Van Der Vlies , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , June vol. 58 no. 2 2023; (p. 480–497)

'A key concern of recent theoretical orientations in the development of “World Literature” as a discipline has been the question of accessibility to literatures in minor languages, which is to say of literal and metaphorical translatability, even transparency. This essay explores the challenge posed by the occlusion of the possible intertextual influence of works in such languages that are evident only as a trace in texts that now seem indisputably part of a canon of World Literature. What happens when the engagement of writers in this canon with cultural production in languages adjacent to those in which they themselves principally operate is not evident to an increasingly global community of scholars, and perhaps not even evidenced in an author’s archive (whether this is understood to be a material collection or indeed a virtual space conceptualized as the literary ecosystem in which an author has developed)? This essay addresses these questions with reference to the work of South African-born Nobel Prize-winning writer J. M. Coetzee, and to the problem posed by some of his work’s (and his archive’s) others, here specifically Afrikaners and the work of Afrikaans-language writers. This consideration has implications not only for the current shape of Coetzee studies, but for that of World Literature more broadly, presenting something of a limit-case for the translation metaphor that directs some of its formulations as disciplinary field.' (Publication abstract)
1 [From] Whom This Writing Then?” Politics, Aesthetics, and the Personal in Coetzee’s Age of Iron Andrew Van Der Vlies , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Approaches to Teaching Coetzee's Disgrace and Other Works 2014; (p. 96-104)
1 y separately published work icon J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace Andrew Van Der Vlies , London : Bloomsbury , 2010 7850456 2010 single work criticism

'This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. It provides a discussion of the novel's critical and popular reception, a comprehensive guide to further reading, and questions for discussion.' (Publisher's summary)
1 The Novelist has Entered the Room Andrew Van Der Vlies , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 2 September no. 5344 2005; (p. 9-10)
— Review of Slow Man J. M. Coetzee , 2005 single work novel
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