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Tag: JM Coetzee

  • Class Struggle (Part 3)

    Class Struggle (Part 3)

    “Anglo-Weltanschaung” What happened concerning poverty and equality? I don’t believe our Ukanian “precariat” spirits have been worn down by centuries of oppression, it is just we need to travel and breath in some fresh air in order to get rid  of the misty antipathies after the long winter. For instance, writing in Australia take a…

  • Giving Away Secrets (Part 3): los Pueblos Unidos

    Giving Away Secrets (Part 3): los Pueblos Unidos

    Spanish speaking: there is the further coincidence of the recent publication of the latest “Australian Novel” by JM Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus (Harvill Secker, 2013). It is a late style work, but unlike the Edward Said critical model of either pragmatic or revolutionary unresolved contradictions, it appears to travel across an altogether different continental…

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Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.

The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.