His spare, icily precise books explore humanity’s most serious themes, including South Africa’s legacy of apartheid. And not all of them are downers.

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In J.M. Coetzee’s New Novel, Love Awakens an Austere Soul “The Pole” explores romance, mortality and the tangled ways we communicate.

Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee's new novel, 'The Pole,' is the taut but clever story of a woman's almost-affair — and the paragon of a great author's late work.

In 1999, the South African writer J.M. Coetzee topped his already celebrated career by publishing "Disgrace," an unforgettable novel that earned him a second Man Booker Prize — the first time ...

Coetzee’s newest, “The Childhood of Jesus” (Viking, 288 pp., $26.95), continues that trend and confirms that it’s not necessarily a fruitful one.

Coetzee told the Barcelona-based newspaper Crónica Global that the Spanish translation of “The Pole” “better reflects my intentions” than the original English does.

The Pole And Other Stories By J.M. Coetzee Short stories/Penguin Random House UK/Paperback/255 pages/$22.66/Amazon SG (amzn.to/3I2u75f) Four stars At the grand old age of 84, winner of not just ...

J.M. Coetzee, one of the leading novelists of our age, turns 84 this year. Last year, he published The Pole and Other Stories, his 18th book (excluding volumes of criticism, commentary, letters ...

With those essentials so breezily established, Coetzee moves on to weightier matters: Beatriz’s soul. Walczykiewicz, the Pole in titular question, is a pianist in his 70s, famous for his ...