- Tytuł:
- The Gardening Fallacy: J. M. Coetzee’s Michael K as a Parody of Voltaire’s Candide
- Autorzy:
- Michta, Kamil
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/889042.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2014
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
- Tematy:
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prose fiction
J.M.Coetzee
Voltaire
parody
civil war
South Africa
allegory - Opis:
- The aim of the essay is to demonstrate that John Maxwell Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K can be perceived as a parody of Voltaire’s Candide, a novel intended as a ridicule of Leibniz’s Theodicy. While Voltaire proposed to withdraw from the world and ‘‘to cultivate one’s own garden” as a remedy to Leibniz’s ill-conceived optimism, Coetzee shows that Voltaire’s praise of passivity and life in accordance with nature, symbolized by a retreat into gardening, is as erratic as Leibniz’s philosophy. The essay concludes that Coetzee’s Michael K can be treated as a caricature of Voltaire’s Candide.
- Źródło:
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Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies; 2014, 23/1; 41-50
0860-5734 - Pojawia się w:
- Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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