What is a classic? : a lecture -- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe -- Samuel Richardson, Clarissa -- Marcellus Emants, a posthumous confession -- Harry Mulisch, the discovery of heaven -- Cees Nooteboom, novelist and traveler -- William Gass's Rilke -- Translating Kafka -- Robert Musil's diaries -- Josef Skvorecky -- Dostoevsky : the miraculous years -- The essays of Joseph Brodsky -- J.L. Borges, collected fictions -- A.S. Byatt -- Caryl Phillips -- Salman Rushdie, the moor's last sigh -- Aharon Appelfeld, the iron tracks -- Amos Oz -- Naguib Mahfouz, the harafish -- The poems of Thomas Pringle -- Daphne Rooke -- Gordimer and Turgenev -- The autobiography of Doris Lessing -- The memoirs of Breyten Breytenbach -- South African Liberals : Alan Paton, Helen Suzman -- Noël Mostert and the eastern Cape frontier.