New essays examining the intellectual allegiances of Coetzee, arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of fiction in English today and a deeply intellectual and philosophical writer.

Introduction: Coetzee's Intellectual Landscapes - Tim Mehigan and Christian Moser
J. M. Coetzee on Truth, Skepticism, and Secular Confession in "The Age We Live In" - Tim Mehigan
Social Order and Transcendence: J. M. Coetzee's Poetics of Play - Christian Moser
Autobiography and Romantic Irony: J. M. Coetzee and Roland Barthes - Patrick Hayes
The Semantics of Barbarism in J. M. Coetzee's Novel Waiting for the Barbarians - Markus Winkler
In the Heart of the Empire: Coetzee and America - Martin Woessner
Faith, Irony, Salt and Possible Impossibilities: J. M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus in Conversation with Zbigniew Herbert's "From Mythology" - Maria Boletsi
Coetzee's Ethics of Language(s) - Robert Stockhammer
Force Fields - Carrol Clarkson
The Reading of Don Quixote: Literature's Migration into a New World - Alexander Honold
The Lives of Animals: From Rational Language to Speaking (of) Lions - Elisa Aaltola
Coetzee as Academic Novelist - Simon During
Character and Counterfocalization: Coetzee and the Kafka Lineage - Derek Attrige
J. M. Coetzee's South African Intellectual Landscapes - David Attwell
Philosophical Fiction? On J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello - Robert B. Pippin
Cosmpolitanism, the Range of Sympathy, and Coetzee - Anton Leist
Index