Tandis qu'il n'est pas difficile de vivre une vie qui consiste simplement à passer le temps. Je suis un de ces êtres heureux qui échappent à toute vocation.
Le bonheur, se dit-il, n'enseigne rien. Le malheur, en revanche, vous endurcit pour l'avenir. Le malheur est l'école de l'âme. Des eaux du malheur on émerge sur l'autre rive, purifié, fort, prêt à faire de nouveau face aux défis d'une vie pour l'art.Désormais, a-t-il décidé, il va se livrer en toute...
Very strong writing, but the plot and themes do not connect with me. Another book by a middle aged man about a middle aged man and his sexual desires. Feels a bit thin in its metaphors/analogies. Sometimes reads as frustrating non-committal to the themes it's raising.
Simon and David come to Novilla by boat in order to start a new life and speak Spanish. Simon is a man in his forties, he does not know exactly his age, and David is a child Simon meets in the boat. Even though Simon does not know David he decides to help him survive and find his mother. David had ...
So impressed with the literary essays of Coetzee. I had no idea he was this brilliant and well-read. Plus this book had in it some of my favorite writers including Robert Walser and Max Sebald. Reading this book has now led me to writers I knew little about including Italo Svevo and Gabriel Garcia ...
In this very slim book, probably really a novella, Coetzee tells the story of Susan Barton who becomes shipwrecked on Robinson Crusoe's island with Cruso and Friday. She is then rescued and tells the story to Daniel Foe (a stand in for Defoe).The book is written in the first person from Susan Barto...
This is a slim novel, almost a novella. It is a semi-autobiographical account of the authors University years and the next few years in London in the 60s working as a computer programmer. It touches on a number of unfulfilling sexual relationships over this time. The emphasis in the book is on th...
Foe is a fascinating look at storytelling, biography, memoir, and author's control. Coetzee looks at all of this through the eyes of Susan Barton—the woman who was cast away and landed on Robinson Crusoe's island. "Huh? There's no woman in Robinson Crusoe!" you say. No, there's not. But Coetzee ...
bookshelves: spring-2015, e-book, booker-winner, published-1999, nobel-laureate, tbr-busting-2015, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, prostitution, afr-s-africa, lit-crit, lit-richer, midlife-crisis Read from April 22 to 25, 2015 CycadDescription: Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetze...
This book was not for me. The dialogue was wooden, and I felt thoroughly unengaged throughout the whole story. I couldn't get into the mindset of any of the characters. Events would occur - many of them horrific - but they felt rather flat and distant. It's not that I wouldn't recommend the boo...
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