'Who does he think he is: Jesus?' J. M. Coetzee's Last Confession in Summertime.
With the publication of The Death of Jesus (2019), following The Childhood of Jesus (2013) and The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), J. M. Coetzee's Jesus novels are a completed trilogy. Baffling to reviewers and critics, attempts have been made to situate the Jesus novels in Coetzee's previous oeuvre, an...
| Publicado en: | Life Writing Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 287 - 310 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2023
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