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| #1204808 in Books | 1997-11-08 | 1997-11-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.80 x5.50l,.83 | File type: PDF | 297 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| the fewer legal restraints, the better|By Luc REYNAERT|In these essays, J.M. Coetzee analyzes thoroughly and attacks the role and the (mis)use of censorship in arts.
Taking Offense State censorship is an inherently bad thing. The cure is worse than the disease. `A censor pronouncing a ban, whether on an obscene spectacle or a derisive imitation, is like a m|.com |In this collection of eight essays, South African novelist J. M. Coetzee examines the complexities of censorship beyond the model of villainous censor and victimized artist. Having lived in a police state, Coetzee's experience is that "the same censors pa
Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
J. M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. He argues that a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalation tends to overtake the rivals in any field ruled by censorship.
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