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Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 by J.M. Coetzee, Derek Attridge

ferciboy's review against another edition

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informative reflective slow-paced

3.25

Tiene buenas reseñas pero casi siempre son solo resúmenes de los libros, con poca reflexión crítica (que cuando la hay es muy buena). A veces sí se la vuela y se pone a resumir libros que no tienen nada que ver con el libro o el autor reseñado. Yo asumo que hace eso para rellenar espacio, sin embargo, es bastante molesto.

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4.0

this book is written under three sections of world literature: 1) european, 2) american, and 3) rest of the world. in these three sections, i didn't like american literature section. those essays were so unnecessarily long, and sometimes, convoluted that i partly lost my interest. yet, i loved reading this book in which coetzee's genius literary mind shines in his writing and thoughts. in one of the most important arguments, he raised a strong and valid point for the ethics of translation and translated literature. this has never discussed that much in the discussions of literature.
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