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y separately published work icon The Nobel Lecture in Literature single work   essay   short story  
Alternative title: He and His Man
Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 The Nobel Lecture in Literature
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      2003 .
      Link: U2528Web resource Sighted: 20/11/2006
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      • Available in video and text format.
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin Books ,       2003 .
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      Extent: 26p.
      Edition info: 1st ed.
      ISBN: 0143034537, 9780143034537
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Best Australian Essays 2004 Robert Dessaix (editor), Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2004 Z1160230 2004 anthology essay extract autobiography Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2004 pg. 87-96
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    y separately published work icon Nobel Lectures : From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2005 Nobel Foundation (editor), Carlton : Melbourne University Publishing , 2006 Z1332193 2006 anthology essay short story Carlton : Melbourne University Publishing , 2006
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    y separately published work icon The Best Australian Essays : A Ten Year Collection Collingwood : Black Inc. , 2011 Z1774371 2011 anthology essay (taught in 3 units) Collingwood : Black Inc. , 2011
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    y separately published work icon Three Stories J. M. Coetzee , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2014 7721999 2014 selected work short story

    'As he gets older he finds himself growing more and more crabby about language, about slack usage, falling standards. Falling in love, for instance. 'We fell in love with the house', friends of his say. How can you fall in love with a house when the house cannot love you back, he wants to reply? Once you start falling in love with objects, what will be left of real love, love as it used to be? But no one seems to care. People fall in love with tapestries, with old cars.

    'A man contemplates his deep connection to a house.

    'The unfathomable idea of threshing wheat points to a life lost.

    'And a writer ponders the creation of his narrator.' (Publication summary)

         Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2014
    Note: With title: He and His Man
Alternative title: Hij en zijn man
Language: Dutch
    • Amsterdam,
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      Netherlands,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Cossee ,       2004 .
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      Extent: 56p.
      Edition info: 1st ed.
      Note/s:
      • With an introduction by Arnon Grunberg.
      ISBN: 9059360583, 9789059360587
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Settings:
  • Lincolnshire,
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    England,
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    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
Influenced by:
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe : Being the Second and Last Part of His Life, and of the Strange Surprizing Accounts of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe / Written by Himself : To Which Is Added a Map of the World, in Which Is Delineated the Voyages of Robinson Crusoe
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