Stranger Shores, Table of Contents
Contents
one, What is a Classic?: A Lecture, 1
two, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 17
three, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, 23
four, Marcellus Emants, A Posthumous Confession, 34
five, Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven, 39
six, Cees Nooteboom, Novelist and Traveler, 49
seven, William Gass's Rilke, 60
eight, Translating Kafka, 74
nine, Robert Musil's Diaries, 88
ten, Josef Skvorecky, 104
eleven, Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 114
twelve, The Essays of Joseph Brodsky, 127
thirteen, J. L. Borges, Collected Fictions, 139
fourteen, A. S. Byatt, 151
fifteen, Caryl Phillips, 160
sixteen, Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh, 169
seventeen, Aharon Appelfeld, The Iron Tracks, 179
eighteen, Amos Oz, 184
nineteen, Naguib Mahfouz, The Harafish, 191
twenty, The Poems of Thomas Pringle, 203
twenty-one, Daphne Rooke, 208
twenty-two, Gordimer and Turgenev, 219
twenty-three, The Autobiography of Doris Lessing, 232
twenty-four, The Memoirs of Breyten Breytenbach, 249
twenty-five, South African Liberals: Alan Paton, Helen Suzman, 261
twenty-six, No¨el Mostert and the Eastern Cape Frontier, 272
notes, 282