![]() ![]() ![]() The interviewees generally remain suspicious of this approach, and slightly baffled since most of Coetzee's peers have by now died, Vincent's collated result is always destined to be highly partial. ![]() His preference is to track down old acquaintances of Coetzee's, purportedly seeking the anecdotal human angle that seems to be absent from the man's opaque literature. Summertime is the third of a series of fictionalised autobiographies by J M Coetzee, following on from Boyhood and Youth. Summertime is a series of interviews and fragmented, annotated entries from John Coetzee's journal that could pass as an outline draft for what Mr Vincent admits will be an "obscure book", focusing on the years 1972-1977, when the subject was in his thirties.ĭescribing Coetzee as a "fictioneer", Vincent largely dismisses any evidence that might be gleaned from the writer's published works (which are variously name-checked) for consideration in his biography. El artculo analiza Boyhood, Youth y Summertime, las memorias ficcionalizadas de Coetzee, recogidas en un solo volumen con el ttulo Scenes from Provincial. In JM Coetzee's latest work, an Englishman named Vincent is writing a biography of the great South African writer John Coetzee. ![]()
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