{"product_id":"literary-cynics-borges-beckett-coetzee-9781474258647","title":"Literary Cynics: Borges, Beckett, Coetzee","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Arthur Rose\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Comparative Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on work by Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Cynics\u003c\/i\u003e explores the relationship between literature and cynicism to consider what happens when authors write themselves into their art, against the rhetoric of authority. \u003cbr\u003eRose takes as his starting point three moments of aesthetic crisis in the careers of these literary cynics: Borges's parables of the 1950s, Beckett's plays of the 1980s, and Coetzee's pedagogic novels of the 2000s. In their transition to 'late style', the works reflect their writers' abiding concern with particular conceptions of rhetoric and aesthetic form. \u003ci\u003eLiterary Cynics\u003c\/i\u003e combines accounts of these 'late' works with classic, lesser known, and archival texts by the three writers, from Coetzee's \u003ci\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/i\u003e to Beckett's letters, as well as detailed analysis of cynicism, both ancient and modern, as a philosophical and political movement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45084885221527,"sku":"9781474258647","price":16489.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781474258647.webp?v=1767098806","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/literary-cynics-borges-beckett-coetzee-9781474258647","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}