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Coetzee’s second novel, published in 1976 in South Africa in an edition that used Afrikaans for most of the dialogue, and then in 1977 in the United Kingdom and the United States, is probably his least read and has had the least critical attention. Susan Gallagher argues that ‘many readers [while]… finding lyrical beauty in individual passages of In the Heart of the Country … remain … confused and sometimes bored by the narrative as a whole’ (Gallagher 108).
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Glenn, I. (1996). Game Hunting in In the Heart of the Country. In: Huggan, G., Watson, S. (eds) Critical Perspectives on J. M. Coetzee. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24311-2_7
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