6/6/2023 0 Comments Summertime by J.M. Coetzee![]() This undeniable puzzle of human connection turns at the centre of Summertime-but first the other paradox.Ĭoetzee is no handyman. Like it or lump it, we are all connected, as sons and daughters, as walkers on this earth, including the barren Karoo: the severe heartlands of Coetzee's upbringing. Perfect-a single sentence with two paradoxes, three if you count the island metaphor. 'He is proving something,' writes Coetzee, 'that each man is an island, that you don't need parents.' Next came Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II, which maps the author's escape to England, fleeing the asphyxia of a mother's love, and a volatile homeland. ![]() ![]() But wait, before you spread the news, bear in mind the death is fictional, and the main conceit lying at the heart of Summertime, his latest experimental memoir.īoyhood began the trilogy back in 1997, an account of stamp- and story-collecting in the Cape Province, growing to understand the harshness around him. The South African novelist, winner of the Booker and the Nobel etc, has passed away in Australia, age and cause unknown. ![]()
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