Tolstoy, Becket, Flobert and others. 23 Essay on world literature

John Maxwell Kutzee is the first writer who was twice awarded the Buker Prize - in 1983 for the novel Life and Time of Michael K. " And in 1999 for the novel "dishonor". In 2003, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Describing the weaknesses and disadvantages of people, the writer discovers the divine spark in the human being,” the Swedish Academy said in a statement. The famous South African author, an experienced and insightful critic, Kutzey gathered his best essays in one collection. Reflecting on the work of the greatest literary minds of the world, from Daniel Defoe and Johann Goethe to Iren Nemirovsky and Philip Rota, the writer in a certain sense challenges the modern person, to whom he already found answers to all questions