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J. M. Coeztee
Waseda University and the organizing committee of Borderless Beckett are inviting Dr. J. M. Coetzee to be their special guest. He is the South African novelist (now residing in Australia) who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. His novels question the severe political reality of South Africa while adopting flamboyant textual strategies. The works explore crucial problems in a modern world at a crossroads of (post)modernism and (post)colonialism.

The topic of Dr.Coetzee’s dissertation (University of Texas, 1969) was the early novels of Samuel Beckett, and he has published a number of essays on Beckett. He is also a patron of the Beckett International Foundation. The works include Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), Life and Times of Michael K (1983), Foe (1986), Age of Iron (1990), (1994), The Master of PetersburgDisgrace (1999), Elizabeth Costello (2003) and Slow Man (2005).

To hear Dr. Coetzee’s Public Lecture (free of charge, with Japanese translation), it will be necessary to register in advance. Please apply by e-mail or fax to the address below and include: (1) your name, (2) your affiliation, (3) your telephone number, and (4) your address.

Date: [admission 16:40 ] 17:00 - 18:50, September 30 (Sat)
Venue: Ibuka Masaru Hall at Waseda University International Convention Centre

The e-mail address for registration is: [email protected]
The Fax number is: +81 3 5286 0808.
If there are too many applications, we may not be able to meet everyone’s desire to attend.

(The Nobel laureate of 2003)
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