Arthur Rose is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of English Studies, and the Centre for Medical Humanities, at Durham University, UK.

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Paradox One Money Problems in Borges, Beckett and Coetzee1 The Currency of Cosmopolitan FameParadox Two Coetzee, Borges and Negotiated Truth2 Borges’s ParablesParadox Three Borges, Beckett and the Sincerity Paradox3 Beckett’s ImpromptusParadox Four Locating Beckett in Patagonia and South Africa4 Coetzee’s LessonsParadox Five Creaturely Dog MenConclusion: On Mere LifeNotesBibliographyIndex

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.

Arthur Rose is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of English Studies, and the Centre for Medical Humanities, at Durham University, UK.

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Paradox One Money Problems in Borges, Beckett and Coetzee1 The Currency of Cosmopolitan FameParadox Two Coetzee, Borges and Negotiated Truth2 Borges’s ParablesParadox Three Borges, Beckett and the Sincerity Paradox3 Beckett’s ImpromptusParadox Four Locating Beckett in Patagonia and South Africa4 Coetzee’s LessonsParadox Five Creaturely Dog MenConclusion: On Mere LifeNotesBibliographyIndex

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.

Arthur Rose is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of English Studies, and the Centre for Medical Humanities, at Durham University, UK.

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Paradox One Money Problems in Borges, Beckett and Coetzee1 The Currency of Cosmopolitan FameParadox Two Coetzee, Borges and Negotiated Truth2 Borges’s ParablesParadox Three Borges, Beckett and the Sincerity Paradox3 Beckett’s ImpromptusParadox Four Locating Beckett in Patagonia and South Africa4 Coetzee’s LessonsParadox Five Creaturely Dog MenConclusion: On Mere LifeNotesBibliographyIndex

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.