Cover -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- J.M. Coetzee and Other Writers (Bożena Kucała and Robert Kusek) -- Chapter One: "From a Far Country" -- "Hidden Literality": Coetzee, Beckett, Herbert, and the Attempt to "Touch Reality" (Johan Geertsema) -- On Lost Causes: Zbigniew Herbert and J.M. Coetzee (Bożena Kucała) -- Elizabeth Costello in Krzysztof Warlikowski's (A)pollonia (Wojciech Drąg) -- Putting It Bluntly: Elizabeth Costello in Krzysztof Warlikowski's (A)pollonia (Wojciech Drąg) -- Travelling Texts, Travelling Ideas. Janina Duszejko Meets Elizabeth Costello, or on Reading J.M. Coetzee in 21st Century Poland (Robert Kusek) -- The Inner and Outer Workings of Translation Reception: Coetzee on (Wieniewska's) Schulz (Zofia Ziemann) -- Chapter Two: "Notes from the East" -- Finding Authenticity in an Inauthentic Novel: J.M. Coetzee's "The Master of Petersburg" as Personal Confession (Pojanut Suthipinittharm) -- Let the Demon in: Death and Guilt in "The Master of Petersburg" (Hania A.M. Nashef ) -- "The Only Truth Is Silence": Stavrogin's Confession Revisited in J.M. Coetzee's " The Master of Petersburg" (Angelika Reichmann) -- Chapter Three: "In the European Core" -- Matters of Rhythm, Masters of Form (Joanna Jeziorska-Haładyj) -- Serious Fiction: Coetzee and Kertész " Under the Sign of K" (Duncan McColl Chesney) -- Shame and Morality: John Maxwell Coetzee's Disgrace in the Context of Walter Benjamin's Reading of Franz Kafka's "The Trial" (Kamil Michta) -- The Art of J.M. Coetzee and the Legacy of European Modernism: The Kafka Intertext in "Elizabeth Costello" (Olga Glebova) -- Remembering Beckett: J.M. Coetzee's "Life and Times of Michael K" (Ottilia Veres) -- Other Selves and the Human World in J.M. Coetzee's "Life and Times of Michael K" (1983) and Franz Kafka's " The Metamorphosis" (1915) (Krystyna Stamirowska).

Reflections on Ethics and Creativity: A Discussion of Literary Works by J.M. Coetzee, Robert Musil and Czesław Miłosz (Marek Pawlicki) -- On Unreliability of Memories: J.M. Coetzee's Autofictional Trilogy (Jan Tlustý) -- Henrikas Radauskas and Rainer Maria Rilke: Parallels in Their Poetry (Eglė Keturakienė and Gabija Bankauskaitė-Sereikienė) -- Chapter Four: "The Middle World" -- Writing from a Middle World: Perspectives on, and from, South Africa (J U Jacobs) -- Icarus and Albatross: Rising above Nationality in J.M. Coetzee's Autrebiographies and Damon Galgut's In a "Strange Room" (Kai Wiegandt) -- Frozen Thoughts on (Post-)Apartheid Transgressions as Conducive to Producing New "Unsolicited" Sprouts of Contriteness. Tony Eprile in Line with John Maxwell Coetzee on the Importance of Memory in Democratic South Africa (Ryszard Bartnik) -- The Middle Voice: Positionality and Agency in J.M. Coetzee's Work (Krzysztof Kowalczyk-Twarowski) -- "We'll Land Together on That Shore": Sceptical Mind in Doris Lessing's "The Cleft" (Lilia Miroshnychenko) -- Notes on Contributors.