Contents Bożena Kucała and Robert Kusek J.M. Coetzee and Other Writers ...............................................................................13 Chapter One: “From a Far Country” Johan Geertsema Hidden Literality: Coetzee, Beckett, Herbert, and the Attempt to “Touch Reality” .......................................................................................21 Bożena Kucała On Lost Causes: Zbigniew Herbert and J.M. Coetzee ...........................................35 Wojciech Drąg Putting It Bluntly: Elizabeth Costello in Krzysztof Warlikowski’s (A)pollonia ..... 49 Robert Kusek Travelling Texts, Travelling Ideas. Janina Duszejko Meets Elizabeth Costello, or on Reading J.M. Coetzee in 21st Century Poland.............63 Zofia Ziemann The Inner and Outer Workings of Translation Reception: Coetzee on (Wieniewska’s) Schulz ...........................................................................79 Chapter Two: “Notes from the East” Pojanut Suthipinittharm Finding Authenticity in an Inauthentic Novel: J.M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg as Personal Confession ...................................................95 Hania A.M. Nashef Let the Demon in: Death and Guilt in The Master of Petersburg .......................107 10 Contents Angelika Reichmann “The Only Truth Is Silence”: Stavrogin’s Confession Revisited in J.M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg ...............................................................121 Chapter Three: “In the European Core” Joanna Jeziorska-Haładyj Matters of Rhythm, Masters of Form.................................................................... 137 Duncan McColl Chesney Serious Fiction: Coetzee and Kertész Under the Sign of K ................................. 147 Kamil Michta Shame and Morality: John Maxwell Coetzee’s Disgrace in the Context of Walter Benjamin’s Reading of Franz Kafka’s The Trial ....................163 Olga Glebova The Art of J.M. Coetzee and the Legacy of European Modernism: The Kafka Intertext in Elizabeth Costello .............................................................175 Ottilia Veres Remembering Beckett: J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K ..................187 Krystyna Stamirowska Other Selves and the Human World in J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K (1983) and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (1915) ........ 199 Marek Pawlicki Reflections on Ethics and Creativity: A Discussion of Literary Works by J.M. Coetzee, Robert Musil and Czesław Miłosz ............................... 213 Jan Tlustý On Unreliability of Memories: J.M. Coetzee’s Autofictional Trilogy ................ 225 Eglė Keturakienė and Gabija Bankauskaitė-Sereikienė Henrikas Radauskas and Rainer Maria Rilke: Parallels in Their Poetry .......... 239 Contents 11 Chapter Four: “The Middle World” J U Jacobs Writing from a Middle World: Perspectives on, and from, South Africa ........ 251 Kai Wiegandt Icarus and Albatross: Rising above Nationality in J.M. Coetzee’s Autrebiographies and Damon Galgut’s In a Strange Room ................................271 Ryszard Bartnik Frozen Thoughts on (Post-)Apartheid Transgressions as Conducive to Producing New “Unsolicited” Sprouts of Contriteness. Tony Eprile in Line with John Maxwell Coetzee on the Importance of Memory in Democratic South Africa ......................................... 283 Krzysztof Kowalczyk-Twarowski The Middle Voice: Positionality and Agency in J.M. Coetzee’s Work .............. 295 Lilia Miroshnychenko “We’ll Land Together on That Shore”: Sceptical Mind in Doris Lessing’s The Cleft .......................................................................................305 Notes on Contributors ............................................................................................ 319.