Reviews for Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews

The average rating for Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-03-21 00:00:00 Will Jamaur A master's course on its own. You want digestible but academic analyses of Beckett's computational poetics, Kafka's insane use of verb tenses, Tolstoy's 'regression' in confessional fiction, Nadine Gordimer's professionalism, or Captain America's penis? You got it! A pretty thorough look into the mind and craft and theories of Coetzee and the authors (and events) he's informed by. Truly penetrating, which is probably why he never wrote something this - or has given interviews like those collected here - ever again. Interesting to think that he questions the closure required of the concept of the essay. Which beckons one of his more curious and beautiful projects, Elizabeth Costello.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-09-03 00:00:00 Jerry Carrico invaluable glimpses into the different paths he's taken in his thought and the development of his ideas. this helps to pave the way up to Disgrace. very little in here indicates the change that will take place with Elizabeth Costello, but you can see how the form that he takes in the books leading up to it can be seen as limiting in the scope of the problems in literature that are of abiding concern to him.