Concentrated and cerebral, it is also deeply embroiled in a conversation with existing scholarship. It is without a doubt a vital addition to studies of Borges, Beckett and Coetzee, however; and of literary cynicism itself.

Times Literary Supplement

An elaborate and admirably argued monograph ... Rose gives fascinating insight into the interrelations between each writer and his work by demonstrating how Borges, Beckett, and Coetzee exploit style [and form] ... An illuminating study.

Journal of Modern Literature

Literary Cynics: Borges, Beckett, Coetzee is a study that will serve scholars of any of these respective authors looking for a thematic connection across continents. More meaningfully, it is revelatory in its theoretical discussion of revolution at its thresholds.

A Contracorriente

Rose writes in the same way he lectures, with great authority ... fluency, flair, and self-assurance.

Review 31

Here is an urbane polemic, a quietly cynical response to critical practices that ground authorial authority.

Mike Marais, Professor of English, Rhodes University, South Africa, in Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies