Reviews for Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005

The average rating for Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-01-24 00:00:00 Robert Obrien Big fan of a couple of Coetzee's novels and this was my first time trying his nonfiction, of which I was left both absorbed and rather bored. Some essays were hard work, not helped by the fact he writes about certain books I haven't read - like Roth's The Plot Against America, and Sebald's After Nature, but there is no doubt the guy writes terrifically well outside his fiction. Highlights for me were on Graham Greene's Brighton Rock (love the novel), Gabriel García Márquez, Bruno Schulz, and the poet Paul Celan, but I yawned somewhat when it came to William Faulkner, V.S. Naipaul, and Walt Whitman (nothing against them, just not interested). Will stick to Coetzee's novels from now on.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-12-01 00:00:00 Marissa Hurwitz So impressed with the literary essays of Coetzee. I had no idea he was this brilliant and well-read. Plus this book had in it some of my favorite writers including Robert Walser and Max Sebald. Reading this book has now led me to writers I knew little about including Italo Svevo and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.