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 The Master of Petersburg Information
417 words, approx. 1 pages
 The Master of Petersburg is a 1994 novel by South African writer J. M. Coetzee. The novel is a work of fiction but features the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky as its protagonist. It is a deep, complex work that draws on the life of Dostoevsky, the... 
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 Harper's Magazine The Master of Petersburg.(Review)
06/01/1999: 6,992 words, approx. 23 pages The Master of Petersburg, by J. M. Coetzee. Viking, 1994. 256 pages. $21.95. Michael Cunningham's The Hours, published last fall to admiring reviews and winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for the year's best work of fiction, bravely... summary from source:
World Literature Today The Master of Petersburg. (book reviews)
01/01/1995: 639 words, approx. 2 pages J. M. Coetzee's seventh novel ostensibly turns away from his native South Africa in order to exploit the postmodern mode, already effectively used in Foe. The originality of The Master of Petersburg lies in the superimposing of two discourses: one historical, the other...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Review by Joseph Frank
3,381 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following review, Frank contends that The Master of Petersburg is an "enigmatic and rather puzzling book" and that Coetzee is one of the most important contemporary English-language writers.
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Critical Review by Patrick McGrath
1,501 words, approx. 5 pages
In the following review, McGrath finds The Master of Petersburg "dense and difficult, a novel that frustrates at every turn," but a worthy addition to Coetzee's canon.
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