Thoughts on TMoP

[Michael Bailey]

Thanks Lawrence for an interesting read.  I hope it isn't over my
usual gaucheness quota to note that my interlibrary loan copy of TMoP
will be in any day now and I may have to post a few late replies.

(none of the bookstores I visited had it and I kept thinking the next
one would have it so I never ordered it.  This went on for weeks.
Then it disappeared from the downtown library catalog, though maybe
not from the shelf, though who is going to drive way down there just
to check?)

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> Thanks to all who posted, especially Mark, Richard, and Bekah for giving me
> a lot of insights into this book which was, for me, the most difficult of
> the Coetzee novels.
>
> Now back to our regularly scheduled novelist.
>
> Lawrence
>
> On Nov 29, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Bekah wrote:
>
>> Thanks Lawrence.   This is such a complex novel,  so beautifully written -
>> perhaps Coetzee's masterpiece - although that honor is usually given to
>> Disgrace.   I'm more taken by this one although I'm not sure it can be
>> really understood in light of the interplay between Coetzee's imagination,
>> his life and Dostoevsky's life and imagination.   There's just so much going
>> on.
>>
>> Anyway, I finished TMoP weeks ago and never got back to really search
>> around in it - too much else on my plate.   It was a second reading and I so
>> enjoy rereading a good book.   Thanks to everyone who participated.
>>
>> Bekah
>>
>>
>> On Nov 29, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Lawrence Bryan wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This is the way TMoP ends.
>>> This is the way TMoP ends.
>>> This is the way TMoP ends.
>>>
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> Lawrence
>>>
>



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