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Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee reimagines Daniel DeFoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe in Foe. <BR><BR>In an act of breathtaking imagination, J.M Coetzee radically reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe.<BR><BR>In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave, Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion and, eventually, his lover. At last they are rescued by a passing ship, but only she and Friday survive the journey back to London.<BR><BR>Determined to have her story told, she pursues the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe in the hope that he will relate truthfully her memories to the world. But with Cruso dead, Friday incapable of speech and Foe himself intent on reshaping her narrative, Barton struggles to maintain her grip on the past, only to fall victim to the seduction of storytelling itself.<BR><BR>Treacherous, elegant and unexpectedly moving, Foe remains one of the most exquisitely composed of this pre-eminent author's works.<BR><BR>'A small miracle of a book. . . of marvellous intricacy and overwhelming power' Washington Post<BR><BR>'A superb novel' The New York Times<BR><BR>South African author J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice for his novels Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K. His novel set during the South African apartheid, Age of Iron, winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year award is also available in Penguin paperback.

Weder in seiner wissenschaftlichen Arbeit noch in seiner Beziehung zu Martha (Freud, geb. Bernays) zeigte Sigmund Freud großes Interesse an den geistigen Dimensionen der Ehe. Persönlich kann man ihm das nicht vorwerfen, aber es bleibt zu bedauern, dass der Begründer der Psychoanalyse die Disziplin nie in diese Richtung gelenkt hat. Unter den vielen Aspekten der Ehe nenne ich zwei, denen Freud seine Aufmerksamkeit hätte widmen können: Was zeichnet die Menschen aus, in die wir uns verlieben ('Objektwahl'), und wie funktioniert Eifersucht ('normale Eifersucht', wie er es nennt)? Trotz seiner soliden humanistischen Ausbildung kommt es Freud nicht in den Sinn, auf das Denken von Platon, Aristoteles und den Stoikern zu solchen Fragen aufzubauen. Ebenso enttäuschend ist seine Loslösung von den zeitgenössischen Bewegungen in Kunst und Literatur sowie der Revolution in sexuellen Beziehungen, die sich um ihn herum vollzog. Viel hätte er von seinem jüngeren Wiener Zeitgenossen Robert Musil lernen können.

After years teaching Romantic poetry in Cape Town, David Lurie has an impulsive affair with a student.<BR><BR>The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.<BR><BR>'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The Times<BR><BR>'At the frontier of world literature' Sunday Telegraph<BR><BR>**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both adored and resented, he picked his way through a world that refused to explain its rules, but whose rules he knew he must obey. Steering between these contradictions, Boyhood evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy. Coetzee examines his young self with the dispassionate curiosity of an explorer rediscovering his own early footprints, and the account of his progress is bright, hard and simply compelling.

Renowned for his sparse yet powerful prose, J. M. Coetzee is unquestionably among the most influential-and provocative-authors of our time. With characteristic insight and a "brittle wit that forces our attention on the common terrors we don't want to think about" (Washington Post), Coetzee here challenges us to interrogate our preconceptions not only of love, but of truth itself.Exacting yet unpredictable, pithy yet complex, Coetzee's The Pole tells the story of Wittold Walccyzkiecz, a vigorous, extravagantly white-haired pianist and interpreter of Chopin who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his concert in Barcelona. Although Beatriz, a married woman, is initially unimpressed by Wittold and his "gleaming dentures," she soon finds herself pursued and ineluctably swept into his world. As the journeyman performer sends her countless letters, extends invitations to travel, and even visits her husband's summer home in Mallorca, their unlikely relationship blossoms, though only on Beatriz's terms.The power struggle between them intensifies, eventually escalating into a full-fledged battle of the sexes. But is it Beatriz who limits their passion by paralyzing her emotions? Or is it Wittold, the old man at his typewriter, trying to force into life his dream of love? Reinventing the all-encompassing love of the poet Dante for his Beatrice, Coetzee exposes the fundamentally enigmatic nature of romance, showing how a chance meeting between strangers-even "a Pole, a man of seventy, a vigorous seventy," and a stultified "banker's wife who occupies her days in good works"-can suddenly change everything.Reminiscent of James Joyce's "The Dead" in its exploration of love and loss, The Pole, with lean prose and surprising feints, is a haunting work, evoking the "inexhaustible palette of sensations, from blind love to compassion" (Berna González Harbour, El País) typical of Coetzee's finest novels.

Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in Age of Iron. <BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>In Age of Iron, J. M. Coetzee brings his searing insight and masterful control of language to bear on one of the darkest episodes of our times.<BR><BR>'Quite simply a magnificent and unforgettable work' Daily Telegraph<BR><BR>'A superbly realized novel whose truth cuts to the bone' The New York Times<BR><BR>'A remarkable work by a brilliant writer' Wall Street Journal

In seiner Künstlernovelle 'Der Pole' entwirft der Nobelpreisträger J. M. Coetzee eine zarte, elegische Liebesgeschichte, die spröde beginnt und traurig schön endet. Der Protagonist, ein ergrauter Maestro, ist Pianist, für den die Schönheit Chopins in der Präzision liegt. Beatriz ist nach seinem Konzert in Barcelona als Gastgeberin nur eingesprungen, doch der Pianist entdeckt in ihr den Stern, dem seine Liebe folgen will. Beatriz kommen seine Interpretationen von Chopins Nocturnes etwas reizlos vor und seine Liebeserklärung in Form eines Gedicht-Zyklus in einer fremden Sprache stellt sie vor die Herausforderung deren Bedeutung erst mühsam dechiffrieren zu müssen. Dennoch entwickelt sich zwischen beiden eine Liebesbeziehung, die die Schwierigkeif aufzeigt, wahre Gefühle zu übermitteln. In einem wahren Meisterwerk entwickelt J. M. Coetzee eine Erzählung, in der es um den richtigen Ausdruck für die Leidenschaft geht, der den anderen überzeugt und so schwer zu finden ist wie der wahre Tastenanschlag für Chopin. Mit der Erkenntnis, dass man ihn manchmal auch zu spät erst findet...

Flüchtig und spröde, leuchtend und skeptisch, verschattet und schön - die drei Meistererzählungen J.M. Coetzees ¿Ein Haus in Spanien¿, ¿Nietverloren¿ und ¿Er und sein Mann¿ in einem Band.Die unverhoffte Wiederbegegnung mit einem Ort aus der Kindheit, das Wiederkennen einer existentiellen Situation, die Sehnsucht nach einem autarken Leben: Das alles wird zum Beginn erzählerischer Meditationen, die in den Falten der Geschichten, in dem, was sie verbergen, eine Wahrheit finden. Flüchtig und spröde, leuchtend und skeptisch, verschattet und schön - eine Erzählung des zurückgekehrten Robinson Crusoe beschließt diesen Band.Heimgekehrte Schiffbrüchige - vielleicht ist das eine der vielen Signaturen von Coetzees rätselhaftem Werk.

Erstickend im Stumpfsinn des kolonialen Südafrika zur Zeit der Apartheid, gefangen mit seinen schwarzen Leibeigenen in einem Netz gegenseitiger Unterdrückungen, Bespitzelung und Verdächtigung, sucht ein verwitweter, weißer Schafzüchter private Erlösung in den Armen einer Geliebten. Sie ist schwarz, und sie ist die blutjunge Frau seines Vorarbeiters. Diese Verletzung der Rassenschranken markiert das Ende des unsicheren feudalen Friedens. Seine verbitterte, ledig gebliebene Tochter sinnt auf blutige Rache und führt sie auch aus. Oder spielt sie alles nur in Gedanken durch? Ist diese schmerzhafte Geschichte nur die Ausgeburt einer rachsüchtigen Phantasie? Die Deutung dieser 266 tagebuchartigen Aufschreibungen bleibt dem Leser überlassen.