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The world after fiction : J. M. Coetzee's "The Childhood of Jesus"
- Opponents of World Literature fear that its advent marks the end of the 'work of literature'. J. M. Coetzee's "The Childhood of Jesus" (2013) presents a world in which the work of literature has indeed been forgotten. Migrants arrive in a new life 'washed clean' of the burden of the European tradition. Simón, who dimly recalls the old life, feels that something is missing in the new. He longs for something altogether 'other'. Might Simón learn from the exceptional child David to perceive the 'likeness' in this world? Are we to read Coetzee's novel like Simón or like David - and with what consequence for our understanding of the work of literature in a time of World Literature?
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| Author: | Benjamin Lewis Robinson |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-609476 |
| URL: | https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-19/robinson_world-after-fiction.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-19_05 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-013-8 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-022-0 |
| ISSN: | 2627-731X |
| Parent Title (English): | The work of world literature / ed. by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson ; Cultural Inquiry ; Vol. 19 |
| Publisher: | ICI Press |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/05/06 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2021 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2021/06/10 |
| Tag: | Otherness; Singularity; World literature |
| GND Keyword: | Coetzee, J. M.; The Childhood of Jesus; Weltliteratur; Das Andere; Singularität <Philosophie>; Derrida, Jacques; Don Quijote |
| Page Number: | 22 |
| First Page: | 106 |
| Last Page: | 126 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 481513345 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| 8 Literatur / 82 Englische, altenglische Literaturen / 820 Englische, altenglische Literaturen | |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 |
