TABLE OF CONTENTS
Lesson 1 Realism 1
Lesson 2 The Novel in Africa 35
Lesson 3 The Lives of Animals 59
1 The Philosophers and the Animals
Lesson 4 The Lives of Animals 91
2 The Poets and the Animals
Lesson 5 The Humanities in Africa 116
Lesson 6 The Problem of Evil 156
Lesson 7 Eros 183
Lesson 8 At the Gate 193
Postscript: Letter of Elizabeth, Lady Chandos 227
J. M. Coetzee
Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature
Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, John Michael Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in literature. In 1972 he returned to South Africa and joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town. His works of fiction include Dusklands, Waiting for the Barbarians, which won South Africa¡¯s highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Literary Award, and the Life and Times of Michael K., for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983. He has also published a memoir, Boyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life, and several essays collections. He has won many other literary prizes including the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize. In 1999 he again won Britain¡¯s prestigious Booker Prize for Disgrace, becoming the first author to win the award twice in its 31-year history. In 2003, Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Nobel Prize for Literature: Winner 2003
Jerusalem Prize
Man Booker Prize for Fiction: Winner
Lannan Literary Award for Fiction