Summertime - Couverture rigide

Coetzee, J. M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670021385 ISBN 13 : 9780670021383

Editeur : Viking Pr, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Coetzee J M

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

'Wonderful stuff. But then, Coetzee is wonderful: edgy, black, remorselessly human, witty, and often outright funny...Summertime is offbeat and deliberate, elusive and truthful' Irish Times

A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his feet as a writer'. 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. Thus emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward, bookish individual, regarded as an outsider within the family. 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.

Summertime shows us a great writer as he limbers up for his task. It completes the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with Boyhood and Youth.

'The cumulative effect of Coetzee's unblinking honesty and his never-wavering seriousness is an understanding of the creation of a great writer' Sunday Telegraph

'A subtle, allusive meditation: an intriguing map of a constricted heart struggling within South Africa's claustrophobic, unpoetic, overtly macho society' Financial Times

'It is not essential one know anything of Boyhood, Youth, or his other works to appreciate its rich offerings as an imaginatively distorted and distorting portrait of the artist as outsider' Times Literary Supplement

'Seriously good' Guardian

Revue de presse

"This is the third instalment of a life so reserved, so repressed, so seething with polite rage and restrained despair that it could only be approached through a third-person voice...it is wonderful stuff. But then, Coetzee is wonderful: edgy, black, remorselessly human, witty, and often outright funny...Summertime is offbeat and deliberate, elusive and truthful" (Irish Times)

"The cumulative effect of Coetzee's unblinking honesty and his never-wavering seriousness, is an understanding of the creation of a great writer" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Beautifully reflective... reveal a strangely sincere, self-critical and romantic man...an intense outstanding and very enjoyable talent." (Scotland on Sunday)

"Both an elegant request that the sum of Coetzee's existence as a public figure be looked for only in his writing, and ample evidence, once again, why that request should be honoured" (Observer)

"A subtle, allusive meditation: an intriguing map of a weak character's constricted heart struggling against the undertow of suspicion within South Africa's claustrophobic, unpoetic, overtly macho society" (Financial Times)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Viking Pr
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0670021385
• ISBN 13: 9780670021383
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 266
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible