But these interpretations ignore the text's insistence on a silence that overwhelms language, the specter of mass death, and a summative darkness that attend upon this place. This book's self-conscious re-presentation of the origins of the English novel (and of Defoe's inauguration of the genre's biographical pattern) culminates in a surreal encounter that Coetzee's readers have claimed limns a restorative justice or a utopic futurity. cannot hope to take the smallest step.” Such a limit is seemingly crossed in one of the most difficult and quite possibly the strangest of passages in J. If the form is governed by a biographical master plot, the “meaning of the life,” as Benjamin has it, is “revealed only in death” that is the plot's narrative limit-and beyond this limit “the novelist. The end of a novel is the site of particular epistemic privilege.
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