Download or read book J.M. Coetzee and the Novel written by Patrick Hayes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the significance of Coetzee's complex and finely-nuanced fiction lies in the acuity with which it both explores and develops the tradition of the novel - ranging from Cervantes, Defoe, and Richardson, to Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Beckett - as part of a sustained attempt to rethink the relationship between writing and politics.