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Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 What Is a Classic? : A Lecture
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    y separately published work icon Current Writing : Text and Reception in Southern Africa vol. 5 no. 2 1993 26489012 1993 periodical issue 1993 pg. 7-24
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    y separately published work icon Stranger Shores : Essays 1986 - 1999 J. M. Coetzee , London : Secker and Warburg , 2001 6323764 2001 selected work essay

    'This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Stranger Shores opens with What is a Classic? in which Coetzee explores the answer to his own question -'What does it mean in living terms to say that the classic is what survives?' -by way of TS Eliot, JS Bach and Zbigniew Herbert. His subjects range from eighteenth and nineteenth century writers Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Ivan Turgenev, to the great German modernists Rilke, Kafka, and Musil, to the giants of late twentieth century literature, among them Harry Mulisch, Joseph Brodsky, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Amos Oz, Naguib Mahfouz, Nadine Gordimer and Doris Lessing.' (Publisher's summary)

    London : Vintage UK , 2002
    pg. 1-19
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