| Description |
viii, 295 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [282]-295). |
| Contents |
What is a classic? : a lecture -- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe -- Samuel Richardson, Clarissa -- Marcellus Emants, a posthumous confession -- Harry Mulisch, the discovery of heaven -- Cees Nooteboom, novelist and traveler -- William Gass's Rilke -- Translating Kafka -- Robert Musil's diaries -- Josef Skvorecky -- Dostoevsky : the miraculous years -- Essays of Joseph Brodsky -- J.L. Borges, collected fictions -- A.S. Byatt -- Caryl Phillips -- Salman Rushdie, the moor's last sigh -- Aharon Appelfeld, the iron tracks -- Amos Oz -- Naguib Mahfouz, the harafish -- Poems of Thomas Pringle -- Daphne Rooke -- Gordimer and Turgenev -- Autobiography of Doris Lessing -- Memoirs of Breyten Breytenbach -- South African Liberals : Alan Paton, Helen Suzman -- Noel Mostert and the eastern Cape frontier. |
| Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
0670899828 (alk. paper) |
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9780670899821 (alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 228010691 |
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YDXCP 1767476 |
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