Ebook {Epub PDF} Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee

Age of Iron is a novel by South African and Nobel Prize winning author J.M. Coetzee, published in Set in Apartheid era Cape Town, the novel is told in an epistolary style through the letters of Mrs Curren, a white elderly Classics professor who is slowly dying of cancer, to her daughter, who has left South Africa for America. Age and illness do much to change a classically educated woman’s perspective – on life, and on her South African society – in J.M. Coetzee's novel Age of Iron. Published toward the end of the apartheid era, this novel by a South African Nobel laureate achieves part of its power by juxtaposing the political turmoil of 's South Africa with the personal crisis of an interesting and engaging character/5. Age of Iron is an exceptional novel. It is written from the perspective of an elderly college professor, a teacher of the classics, who is dying from cancer. She is relating events to her daughter who left South Africa years ago to escape the injustices of the society that supported apartheid/5(80).

Taking a decidedly inward turn, Age of Iron becomes what all of Coetzee's novels are: a deeply meditative examination of conscience on the conditions and consequences of living in an Age of Iron. Age of Iron. J. M. Coetzee. Penguin Books, - Fiction - pages. 2 Reviews. In Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to terms with the. Age of Iron Introduction. Published in , Age of Iron is J.M. Coetzee's sixth novel. While less well-known than some of his other works such as Life Times of Michael K () and Disgrace () - both of which received the Booker Prize - Age of Iron was tremendously well-received by literary critics worldwide. It's an important part of the larger body of Coetzee's work for which he.

Age of Iron is a novel by South African Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee. It is among his most popular works and was the Sunday Express Book of the Year. In it, he paints a picture of social and political tragedy unfolding in a country ravaged by racism and violence. In "Classical Cultures and Languages in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron," Gillian Dooley argues that Curren "is profoundly influenced by ideas of salvation and the soul," but that Curren's version of salvation, while primarily Christian in character, is also informed by a doctorate and decades of study on classicism, and that "her consciousness is steeped in a discourse ranging across three thousand years of European culture, dating back at least as far as Hesiod, from whom the title originates. Complete summary of J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Age of Iron.