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Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
This is the fourth novel I’ve read by Coetzee and the third that I’ve completed for my 50 Year Project. I read this novel a few years ago and found it disturbing. Since I have the rule that I have to read or reread … Continue reading
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Youth by J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee’s Youth is a semi-fictionalized autobiographical novel, published in 2002. In the novel, a young man during the 1960s, after graduating in mathematics and English, flees South Africa and settles in London. He doesn’t want to cope with the political … Continue reading
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Dusklands by J. M. Coetzee
There are two authors on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die that have ten novels on the list. One is Charles Dickens. The other is J. M. Coetzee. This year I am determined to read the ten … Continue reading
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