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Youth
J. M. Coetzee
其他書名
Scenes from Provincial Life II
出版
Penguin Publishing Group
, 2003-10-07
主題
Fiction / Biographical
Fiction / Coming of Age
Fiction / Family Life / General
ISBN
0142002003
9780142002001
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bXSMEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
J.M. Coetzee's latest novel,
The Schooldays of Jesus
, is now available from Viking.
Late Essays: 2006-2016
will be available January 2018.
The second installment of J. M. Coetzee's fictionalized "memoir" explores a young man's struggle to experience life to its full intensity and transform it into art. The narrator of
Youth
has long been plotting an escape-from the stifling love of his overbearing mother, a father whose failures haunt him, and what he is sure is impending revolution in his native country of South Africa. Arriving at last in London in the 1960s, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance and instead begins a dark pilgrimage into adulthood.
Youth
is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness, isolated and adrift, turning in on itself, of a young man struggling to find his way in the world, written with tenderness and a fierce clarity.