Far left: JM Coetzee; top left: David Attwell, top right: Derek Attridge; bottom left: Elleke Boehmer, bottom right: Robert Pippin. All photos: provided.
In the sixth episode of his podcast series Full particulars, David Attwell discusses JM Coetzee's enigmatic Jesus trilogy with Robert Pippin (University of Chicago), Derek Attridge (University of York), and Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford).
With a reading from The death of Jesus by JM Coetzee.
Credit: Music by Darius Brubeck: “Tugela Rail”, published by Valentine Music / SAMRO
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Another footnote:
Halfway through the podcast (Minute 27:38 to 28:28), where Robert Pippin talks of intertextual references (Goethe, "the willingness of a god to endure suffering"), reminded me of where Thomas Mann, on the second last page of "Lotte in Weimar", let the Goethe character say to Lotte:
"They sacrificed to the god, and in the end the sacrifice was God."
In Thomas Mann's version, this intertextual reference is one step more arresting to boot.