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Article: Who killed JM Coetzee?(Life)
- Article from:
- Sunday Tribune (South Africa)
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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Summertime by JM Coetzee
Harvill Secker/Random House, 2009
Talking on a topic for one minute "without repetition, hesitation or deviation" was the challenge of a 70s radio word game. Here's a new challenge: Discuss a book by JM Coetzee avoiding words prefixed with post-, or de-, or beginning with the letter S.
The premise of Summertime, JM Coetzee's third fictionalised autobiography, after Boyhood, and Youth, is that a biographer is interviewing five people who have interacted with fictional writer John Coetzee during the period 1972-1977. The interviews are sandwiched between a series of extracts from the late writer's notebooks from that ...