Summertime - J M Coetzee
Summertime - J M Coetzee A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee - a…
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Summertime - J M Coetzee
A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee - a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him, former friends and colleagues. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his feet as a writer'.
His insistence on doing manual work, his long hair and beard, and rumours that he writes poetry evoke nothing but suspicion in the South Africa of the time. Thus emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward, bookish individual, regarded as an outsider within the family.