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Title: Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II by J. M. Coetzee ISBN: 0-670-03102-X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 03 July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Event horizon
Comment: My voyage of trough Coetzee's books continues as the time progresses, and as I read more and more, I begain to undersatnd all that I failed in earlier readings...and I find myself wondering, how could one write so good, how could one put on paper every thought that troubled me since I'm aware of my existence...
This you may call an autobiography, an autobiography which presents a young student, artist-to-be, fleeinf from sout-africa in a land of romantic poets, The england, where he does not find, neither poets nor art...
If you ever wondered about your place in modern world, if you ever longed for an "old times" this is the book for you...
(Oh, I almost forgott - if you don't have an elementary education of romanesque poets, philosophy and general conception of the world, this book will be slightly incomprehensible :)
Rating: 5
Summary: Heavy
Comment: Very beautiful written. But don't expect an easy-listening afternoon. This book is black. Very black. A very depressing athmosphere but interesting to the reader. It gives you the chance to look back yourself and see what you reached so far in life. And are you better off than John, who is in fact Coetzee himself? You look trough the eyes of a young man who has thrown himself into the big world while in fact he is not ready. Coetzee reveals his youth in London and wich kind of person he was. At the surface he seems egoistic, asocial and pathetic but deeper you discover someone completely else. Just by reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful
Comment: Coetzee's honesty about depression and sexuality really shook me. Most portraits of the artist as a young man sentimentalize the artist, or hyperbolize in order to titillate, or try to evoke the spirit of the time in which he is coming of age. Coetzee, as he did similarly (but not identically) in Boyhood, sticks close to his narrator's consciousness. This makes for a plodding and difficult look at a young man's life. It feels so close to reality, and in that way very far from literature. This is not a story in the traditional sense -- it's a hard, precise reflection of a consciousness struggling to emerge. Its insistence on portraying reality in a form reflective of that reality is this book's finally gorgeous achivement.
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Title: Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee ISBN: 014026566X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee ISBN: 0670031305 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 09 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee ISBN: 0140296409 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee, Michael Coetzee ISBN: 0140074481 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: February, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee ISBN: 014006110X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: April, 1982 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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