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A Posthumous Confession
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A Posthumous Confession Paperback - 2011

by Coetzee, J. M. (Introduction by)/ Coetzee, J. M. (Translator)/ Emants, Marcellus

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New York Review of Books, 2011. Paperback. New. 193 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.50 inches.
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  • Title A Posthumous Confession
  • Author Coetzee, J. M. (Introduction by)/ Coetzee, J. M. (Translator)/ Emants, Marcellus
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Condition New
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New York Review of Books, U.S.A.
  • Date 2011
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1-1590173473
  • ISBN 9781590173473 / 1590173473
  • Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.99 x 5.33 x 0.44 in (20.29 x 13.54 x 1.12 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009051329
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Marcellus Emants (1848–1923) was a Dutch poet, novelist, and playwright. After coming into a substantial inheritance at the age of twenty-three following the death of his father, he threw over his law studies and dedicated his life to travel and literature. Emants had little contact with his contemporaries, and published his first poems and plays in two literary magazines he co-founded while still at the University of Leiden. He also founded a theater company, where many of his plays—productions that he directed and acted in as well—were performed. In 1904 Emants married the German actress Jenny Kuhn, with whom he had a daughter, Eva Clara Jenny (she subsequently adopted the name Lilith, from the title of an early epic poem by her father). He took a special interest in psychical phenomena and participated, with the physiologist G. A. van Rijnberk, in experiments with the famous medium Eusapia Palladino. Emants died in the Grand Hôtel in Baden, Switzerland.

J.M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003, is currently a visiting professor of humanities at the University of Adelaide. His newest book,  Summertime, was published in 2009.


 

Media reviews

“Since the time of Rousseau we have seen the growth of the genre of the confessional novel, of which A Posthumous Confession is a singularly pure example. Termer [the narrator], claiming to to be unable to keep his dreadful secret, records his confession and leaves it behind as a monument to himself, thereby turning a worthless life into art.” -J. M. Coetzee

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Marcellus Emants (1848-1923) was a Dutch poet, novelist, and playwright. After coming into a substantial inheritance at the age of twenty-three following the death of his father, he threw over his law studies and dedicated his life to travel and literature. Emants had little contact with his contemporaries, and published his first poems and plays in two literary magazines he co-founded while still at the University of Leiden. He also founded a theater company, where many of his plays--productions that he directed and acted in as well--were performed. In 1904 Emants married the German actress Jenny Kuhn, with whom he had a daughter, Eva Clara Jenny (she subsequently adopted the name Lilith, from the title of an early epic poem by her father). He took a special interest in psychical phenomena and participated, with the physiologist G. A. van Rijnberk, in experiments with the famous medium Eusapia Palladino. Emants died in the Grand Htel in Baden, Switzerland.

J.M. Coetzee, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003, is currently a visiting professor of humanities at the University of Adelaide. His newest book, Summertime, was published in 2009.

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