β Scribed by J. M. Coetzee
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Summertime is an inventive and inspired work of fiction that allows J.M.
Coetzee to imagine his own life with a critical and unsparing eye, revealing
painful moral struggles and attempts to come to grips with what it means to
care for another human being.
A young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African
writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he
was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed
father - a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself
as a writer. Never having met the man himself, the biographer interviews five
people who knew Coetzee well, including a married woman with whom he had an
affair, his cousin Margot, and a Brazilian dancer whose daughter took English
lessons with him. These accounts add up to an image of an awkward, reserved,
and bookish young man who finds it hard to make meaningful connections with
the people around him.
Summertime is an inventive and inspired work of fiction that allows J.M.
Coetzee to imagine his own life with a critical and unsparing eye, revealing
painful moral struggles and attempts to come to grips with what it means to
care for another human being. Incisive, elegant, and often surprisingly funny,
Summertime is a compelling work by one of today's most esteemed writers.
Library : General
Universes : Scenes from Provincial Life [03]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780143118459
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