By Carrol Clarkson
Clarkson can pay sustained cognizance to the dynamic interplay among Coetzee's fiction and his severe writing, exploring the Nobel prize-winner's participation in, and contribution to, modern literary-philosophical debates. The booklet engages with the newest literary and philosophical responses to Coetzee's paintings.
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1 Of primary interest in the present chapter, however, is Coetzee’s sustained philosophical engagement with questions about the logic of literary address as it appears in his critical writings. M. Coetzee: Countervoices 197). I begin with a discussion of Coetzee’s essay, ‘Achterberg’s “Ballade van de Gasfitter”: The Mystery of I and You’ (first published in PMLA in 1977, and then reprinted in Doubling the Point in 1992) to follow a sequence of Coetzee’s intellectual encounters with other writers.
Taking these transformations into account, surface linguistic structures in speech (or writing) can be understood to trace inner mental Not I 41 processes, to be read as correlating signs for ‘all of the diverse movements of our souls’ (Arnauld, General and Rational Grammar: The Port-Royal Grammar 66, cited in Chomsky, Cartesian Linguistics 41). Leo Spitzer would go on to apply this idea of syntax as imitative of an inner world in his discussions of the novels of Marcel Proust. Proust’s syntax, says Spitzer, represents ‘in an almost onomatopoeic manner the movements of his soul’ (cited in Coetzee, The English Fiction of Samuel Beckett 86), and this is where we see one of Coetzee’s important departures from extreme versions of transformationalgenerative principles as they are applied to the domain of literature.
The cue for this line of discussion comes from Coetzee’s doctoral thesis, where he speaks about the consciousness of Beckett’s character, Watt, as a third-person, past-tense rendering of Descartes’ Meditations. ‘The Meditations are written in the first person and the present tense’, writes Coetzee in his thesis; ‘if we rewrite them in the third person and the past tense we have something close to the philosophizing of Watt’ (Coetzee, The English Fiction of Samuel Beckett 146). Coetzee then goes on to cite a passage from Descartes’ Meditation III, rewritten in the past tense and the third person, which he juxtaposes with a passage from Beckett’s Watt.