![]() ![]() ![]() Conrad, too, wrote powerful fiction that readers would invest with contradictory interpretations. Like his acknowledged literary forebear, Samuel Beckett, and like Conrad, this John Coetzee writes in a non-natal language, albeit one he learned as a child.īeckett and Coetzee repudiate the idea that literature teaches or uplifts - it simply is what it is, thoughtful or not, and incapable of engagement on “issues.” It’s up to the reader to provide meaning. Coetzee borrows from Joseph Conrad, followed by chapters consisting of annotated transcriptions of interviews with his subjects, all of whom knew this fictive Coetzee to varying degrees. The novel’s opening is framed by “fragments” from “John Coetzee’s notebooks for the years 1972-75,” a narrative device J.M. Coetzee’s new novel, “Summertime,” identified only as a “Mr Vincent,” is an English academic gathering information for a biographical study of a key period in the life of “John Coetzee,” the “late” South African writer. ![]()
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