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Giving offense : essays on censorship

A coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring and argue that a destructive dynamicof belligerence and escalation tends to overtake the rivals in any field ruled by censorship.

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  • "A coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring and argue that a destructive dynamicof belligerence and escalation tends to overtake the rivals in any field ruled by censorship."@en
  • "In Giving Offense, South African writer J.M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of a writer who has lived and worked under its shadow. Widely acclaimed for his many novels, Coetzee is also a brilliant literary critic and essayist. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. Subscribing neither to the myth of the writer as a moral giant nor to that of the writer as persecuted innocent, Coetzee argues that a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalation tends to overtake the rivals in any field ruled by censorship."

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  • "Aufsatzsammlung"
  • "Essays"
  • "Eseje południowo-afrykańskie w języku angielskim"

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  • "Contra la censura : ensayo sobre la pasión por silenciar"
  • "Contra la censura : ensayos sobre la pasión por silenciar"@es
  • "Contra la censura : ensayos sobre la pasión por silenciar"
  • "Giving offense : essays on censorship"@en
  • "Giving offense : essays on censorship"

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