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J. M. Coetzee s early novels confronted readers with a brute reality stripped of human relation and a prose repeatedly described as spare, stark, intense and lyrical. In this book, Jarad Zimbler explores the emergence of a style forged in Coetzee s engagement with the complexities of South African culture and politics. Tracking the development of this style across Coetzee s first eight novels, from Dusklands to Disgrace, Zimbler compares Coetzee s writing with that of South African authors such as Gordimer, Brink and La Guma, whilst re-examining the nature of Coetzee s indebtedness to modernism and postmodernism. In each case, he follows the threads of Coetzee s own writings on stylistics and rhetoric in order to fix on those techniques of language and narrative used to activate a politics of style . In so doing, Zimbler challenges long-held beliefs about Coetzee s oeuvre, and about the ways in which contemporary literatures of the world are to be read and understood."