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29 49 y separately published work icon Slow Man J. M. Coetzee , ( trans. 왕은철 (Wang Ŭn-chʻŏl) with title 슬로우맨 ) Seoul : 들녘 (a.k.a Tŭllyŏk) , 2009 Z1209346 2005 single work novel Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart. (Publisher's blurb)
19 14 y separately published work icon Dusklands J. M. Coetzee , ( trans. 왕은철 (Wang Ŭn-chʻŏl) with title 어둠의 땅 ) Seoul : 들녘 (a.k.a Tŭllyŏk) , 2006 6173882 1974 single work novel

"This work contains two novellas. In the first [The Vietnam Project], a specialist in psychological warfare is driven to murderous action by the stresses of a macabre project to win the Vietnam War, and in the second [The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee], a megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe". (Source: Libraries Australia)

32 68 y separately published work icon Elizabeth Costello : Eight Lessons J. M. Coetzee , ( trans. 왕은철 (Wang Ŭn-chʻŏl) with title 엘리자베스코스텔로 ) Seoul : 들녘 (a.k.a Tŭllyŏk) , 2005 Z1064567 2003 single work novel (taught in 3 units)

In Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons, the eponymous protagonist is a retired author of international literary acclaim, who now spends her time giving guest lectures and interviews at scholarly events around the world. Old age has loosened, rather than reified, her ethical and literary convictions, and swelled her emotional reserves; rather than provide the staid academic wisdom expected of her, Costello offers provocative, unsettling opinions on issues such as animal rights, literary censorship, and the nature of belief - opinions she may or may not believe in herself. Profoundly aware of itself, Coetzee's novel is about human morality and mortality, but above all, about literature itself and the ethical responsibilities of writers and readers.

26 9 y separately published work icon Age of Iron J. M. Coetzee , ( trans. 왕은철 (Wang Ŭn-chʻŏl) with title 철의시대 : 존쿳시장편소설 ) Seoul : 들녘 (a.k.a Tŭllyŏk) , 2004 6204422 1990 single work novel

'Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in his Sunday Express Book of the Year award-winner Age of Iron. In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and the brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face to face with its true horrors: the hounding by the police of her servant's son, the burning of a nearby black township, the murder by security forces of a teenage activist who seeks refuge in her house. Through it all, her only companion, the only person to whom she can confess her mounting anger and despair, is a homeless man who one day appears on her doorstep' (Source: Libraries Australia).

44 9 y separately published work icon Life & Times of Michael K J. M. Coetzee , ( trans. 왕은철 (Wang Ŭn-chʻŏl) with title 마이클 K ) Seoul : 들녘 (a.k.a Tŭllyŏk) , 2004 6181890 1974 single work novel (taught in 2 units)

"From the author of Waiting for the Barbarians, another startling and disturbing portrait of today's South Africa, a land and a people beset by violence and siege. Coetzee here tells the story of a handicapped young man who has worked as a municipal gardener in Cape Town. His mother is dying, and she wishes to return to her birthplace out in the veldt. Without the required transit passes, mother and son set out on a journey that will end in death for her and in a new but temporary life on an abandoned farm for him. His respite in isolation and peace does not last long, however; grotesque reality soon returns to trouble this quiet new world. Against the solitude of this private drama, Coetzee paints an eloquent and pained picture of his homeland and of the bureaucrats, doctors, army deserters, and camp guards who reveal the stress and qualms of their existence and who uneasily sense that there is no conclusion to their troubles and no future for their lives." (Source: Libraries Australia)

43 18 y separately published work icon Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee , ( trans. 왕은철 (Wang Ŭn-chʻŏl) with title 야만인을기다리며 : 존쿳시장편소설 ) Seoul : 들녘 (a.k.a Tŭllyŏk) , 2003 6303247 1980 single work novel 'How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid? Shall I tell you what I sometimes wish? I wish that these barbarians would rise up and teach us a lesson, so that we would learn to respect them.

After twenty years of peacefully running one of the Empire’s settlements, a magistrate takes pity on an enemy barbarian who has been tortured. He enters into an awkward intimate relationship with her, and then is himself imprisoned as an enemy of the state.

Waiting for the Barbarians is a disturbing political fable about oppression, the fraught desire for reparation, and about living with a troubled conscience under an unjust regime.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon Classic Echo Seoul : 들녘 (a.k.a Tŭllyŏk) , 2001 7979254 2001 series - publisher novel
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