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In the Heart of the Country

9 best books like In the Heart of the Country (J.M. Coetzee): Nineteen Seventy Seven, Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas, Rites of Passage, Malone Dies, Berlin Stories, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Sparknotes Literature Guides), The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings, Eva Trout, Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities

Nineteen Seventy Seven
AuthorDavid Peace
ISBN1852427442
The bodies, the corpses, the alleys and the wasteland, the dirty men, the broken women.
Wow, this is stunning. Literally. It's like being bludgeoned over the head by a cascade of bloody and relentless grimness. BUT all this violence, this brutality, this hate and corruption, betrayal and greed...
Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas
AuthorSu Tong
ISBN0060596333
The brutal realities of the dark places Su Tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in 1930s provincial China -- worlds of prostitution, poverty, and drug addiction -- belie his prose of stunning and simplebeauty. The title novella, "Raise the Red Lantern," which became a critically acclaimed...
Rites of Passage
AuthorWilliam Golding
ISBN0571209432
Well, William Golding, sir. You achieved something that not many men have done. You brought me very close to tears.
This novel really produced an amazingly strong emotional response in me. Odd, in that it keeps the reader at arm's length for much of Edmund Talbot's narrative. Young William is a prig...
Malone Dies
AuthorSamuel Beckett
ISBN0802151175
Written and published in French in 1951, and in Samuel Beckett’s English translation in 1956, Malone Dies is the second of his immediate post-war novels, written during what Beckett later referred to as ‘the siege in the room’.

‘Malone’, writes Malone, ‘is what I am called now.’...
Berlin Stories
AuthorRobert Walser
ISBN1590174542
A New York Review Books Original

In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories collects his alternately...
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Sparknotes Literature Guides)
AuthorSparkNotes
ISBN1586638300
Spark Publishing’s Literature Guides are celebrating their 5th Anniversary!  To celebrate this, we’re giving our TOP 50 a revamp by adding some exciting new features.

There will be sixteen pages devoted to writing a literary essay including: Glossary of literary terms, Step by...
The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings
AuthorJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
ISBN0451529626
"The illusion that life is but a dream has occurred to quite a few people, and I feel the same way about it." The narrator in one of my favorite books, The Book of Disquiet, also thought this of life, and I've found myself pondering the idea after hearing from Werther.
I turn in upon myself and find a...
Eva Trout
AuthorElizabeth Bowen
Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen’s last novel, epitomizes her bold exploration of the territory between the comedy of manners and cutting social commentary.

Orphaned at a young age, Eva has found a home of sorts in Worcestershire with her former schoolteacher, Iseult Arbles, and Iseult's husband,...
Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities
AuthorStanley Fish
ISBN0674467264
Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticism's most basic assumptions. He penetrates to the core of the modern debate about interpretation, explodes numerous misleading formulations, and offers...
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