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The Ambivalence Artist

Author(s) -

David K. Marcus

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

dissent

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154

H-Index - 18

eISSN - 1946-0910

pISSN - 0012-3846

DOI - 10.1353/dss.0.0017

Subject(s) - ambivalence , sociology , project commissioning , art , publishing , visual arts , psychology , psychoanalysis , literature

J.M. Coetzee made an early career out of ambivalence. Restrained and impersonal, he mined the caverns of despair from the safe distance of allegory and literary appropriation. Life and Times of Michael K, his 1983 Booker Prize winner, tracked the itinerant life of a slow-witted gardener in the sparse prose of Kafka. Foe, a work of revisionist and feminist genius, challenged the rugged masculinity of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe by inhabiting the voice of an imagined female companion. Master of Petersburg occupied not only the melancholic timbre of a Dostoevsky novel—it was, after all, about the great master—but also the stilted Victorian English of a Constance Garnett translation.

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