Inner Workings av J.M. Coetzee

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<p>Following on from <i>Stranger Shores</i>, which contained J.M. Coetzee''s essays from 1986 to 1999, <i>Inner Workings</i> gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005.<br><br>Of the writers discussed in the first half of the book, several - Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Sandor Marai - lived through the Austro-Hungarian fin de si¿e and felt the influence of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Freud. Coetzee further explores the work of six of twentieth-century German literature''s greatest writers: Robert Musil, Robert Walser, Walter Benjamin (the Arcades Project), Joseph Roth, Gunter Grass, W.G. Sebald, and the poet Paul Celan in his ''wrestlings with the German language''.<br><br>There is an essay on Graham Greene''s <i>Brighton Rock</i> and on the short fiction of Samuel Beckett, a writer whom Coetzee has long admired. American literature is strongly represented from Walt Whitman, through William Faulkner, Saul Bellow and Arthur Miller to Philip Roth. Coetzee rounds of