Verdict: carrots
Read the recently released books, The Good Story and JM Coetzee and the Life of Writing, and you will find neither grand self-revelation nor weepy soul-bearing. You won’t hear about how each filial bond or fission informed specific features of each of JM Coetzee’s fictions. You won’t find out how traumatised he felt by the death of his mother, father, son, and ex-wife in the space of four years in the late 1980s. Nor will you get a garrulous account of the cultural and linguistic alienation he experienced as a “recusant Afrikaner” during the years of apartheid. After the emotional recalcitrance of the fact-heavy, effortful, Kannemeyer biography, JM Coetzee: A Life In Writing, there’s a good chance, even if unacknowledged, that you will comb these books in search of Coetzee’s feelings. You won’t find them. Not really.
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- The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy by JM Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz
EAN: 9781846558887
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- JM Coetzee and the Life of Writing by David Attwell
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EAN: 9781431421534
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