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Sep 25, 2023 · In “The Pole,” the new novel by the South African writer J. M. Coetzee, Arrau has another fan in the character of Beatriz, a fortysomething socialite. But what does she know?
Oct 12, 2023 · “The Pole” serves as an excellent microcosm of the human condition — scrutinizing, sharp, and delicate. The novel opens with a single enigmatic sentence: “The woman is the first to give him...
Sep 19, 2023 · The Pole is a book about a Polish pianist and a Spanish patron of the arts who develop an unconventional relationship. It explores themes of love, communication, and art, and has received mixed reviews from readers.
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Sep 11, 2023 · Coetzee’s gravid new novel, “The Pole,” presents readers with another of his rawboned and priapic older men, unable to dampen the lust that plagues and shames them.
Sep 22, 2023 · 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.
Sep 19, 2023 · From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace, a psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about love and the mutability of human relationships. Renowned for his sparse yet powerful prose, J. M. Coetzee is unquestionably among the most influential―and provocative―authors of our time.
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Sep 19, 2023 · A droll novel that skips lightly across serious matters—art and death and love. There’s a playfulness from the outset of this slim work by the Nobel Prize–winning Coetzee. “The woman is the first to give him trouble, followed soon afterwards by the man,” it begins.
