Metaphysical exile : on J.M. Coetzee's Jesus fictions / Robert Pippin.

9780197565971 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.

English

1 online resource (152 pages).

PR9369.3.C58 Z8726 2021

823.914

Robert Pippin presents a detailed interpretation of J.M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' trilogy as a whole. Pippin treats the three fictions as a philosophical fable. Everyone in the mythical land explored by Coetzee is an exile, removed from their homeland and transported to a strange new place. While discussing the social and psychological dimensions of the fable, Pippin also treats the literary aspects of the fictions as philosophical explorations of the implications of a deeper kind of homelessness - a version that characterizes late modern life itself - and he treats the theme of forgetting as a figure for modern historical amnesia and indifference to reflection and self-knowledge.

Robert Pippin presents a detailed interpretation of J.M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' trilogy as a whole. Pippin treats the three fictions as a philosophical fable. Everyone in the mythical land explored by Coetzee is an exile, removed from their homeland and transported to a strange new place. While discussing the social and psychological dimensions of the fable, Pippin also treats the literary aspects of the fictions as philosophical explorations of the implications of a deeper kind of homelessness - a version that characterizes late modern life itself - and he treats the theme of forgetting as a figure for modern historical amnesia and indifference to reflection and self-knowledge.

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