David atwell jm coetzee biography

In 1995 a small collection of papers related to the composition of several of J.M. Coetzee’s novels were deposited at Harvard University.

Face to Face with the Archive: J. M. Coetzee and the Life of ...

The archives were held there without much comment, only accessed by a few scholars, until they were moved to Coetzee’s alma mater, the University of Texas, Austin in 2011, where they are now held by the Harry Ransom Center, which has one of the largest archival holding related to twentieth-century English literature in the world.

A far more extensive set of archives related to all of Coetzee’s works, with the exception of the most recent, The Childhood of Jesus, was delivered to Harry Ransom Center in 2013. Coetzee wrote his PhD thesis (The English Fiction of Samuel Beckett: An Essay In Stylistic Analysis) at this University in the late 1960s, and a large part of this work involved his going into the archives (then held on the top floor of the University Library rather tha J.M.

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