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Incisiva, elegante y sorprendentemente divertida,Verano es la culminación de las memorias noveladas del Nobel sudafricano.Unas memorias que se completan conInfancia yJuventud.Un joven biógrafo inglés prepara un libro sobre el difunto escritor sudafricano John Coetzee. Sus investigaciones se centran en el Coetzee treintañero, en una epoca en la que el escritor compartia una destartalada casa en Ciudad del Cabo con su padre viudo y en la que, en opinion del joven biografo, comenzaba a encontrarse a si mismo como escritor.Sin haberlo conocido personalmente, el biografo se embarca en una serie de entrevistas con personas que fueron importantes en su vida: una mujer casada con la que tuvo una aventura amorosa, su prima Margot y una bailarina brasileña, madre de una de sus alumnas de ingles. De sus testimonios emerge el retrato de un joven Coetzee algo torpe, rodeado de libros, con poca facilidad para abrirse a los demas y entregado a su imperiosa necesidad de escribir.Reseña:Si enInfancia y enJuventudse cuestionaba que significaba escribir unas memorias, Verano revienta la nocion de autobiografia, ya que en este libro todo y nada es, en cierto sentido, estrictamente real.Times Literary Supplement

After crossing oceans, a man and a boy arrive in a new land. Here they are each assigned a name and an age, and held in a camp in the desert while they learn Spanish, the language of their new country. As Simon and David they make their way to the relocation centre in the city of Novilla, where officialdom treats them politely but not necessarily helpfully. Simon finds a job in a grain wharf. The work is unfamiliar and backbreaking, but he soon warms to his stevedore comrades, who during breaks conduct philosophical dialogues on the dignity of labour, and generally take him to their hearts. Now he must set about his task of locating the boy's mother. Though like everyone else who arrives in this new country he seems to be washed clean of all traces of memory, he is convinced he will know her when he sees her. And indeed, while walking with the boy in the countryside Simon catches sight of a woman he is certain is the mother, and persuades her to assume the role. David's new mother comes to realise that he is an exceptional child, a bright, dreamy boy with highly unusual ideas about the world. But the school authorities detect a rebellious streak in him and insist he be sent to a special school far away. His mother refuses to yield him up, and it is Simon who must drive the car as the trio flees across the mountains. The Childhood of Jesus is a profound, beautiful and continually surprising novel from a very great writer.

O protagonista de Verán é John Coetzee, un escritor que comparte co autor deste libro procedencia, profesión, obras e Premio Nobel. Só que na ficción xa está morto. A través das conversas que mantén un biografo ingles, o relato reconstrue a vida do personaxe entre os anos 1972 e 1977. A sua curma, unha bailarina brasileira e outras persoas que o coñeceron pintan un Coetzee zoupon con escasas habilidades sociais, nun fresco que se move entre o emotivo e o comico.

After crossing oceans, a man and a boy arrive in a new land. Here they are each assigned a name and an age, and held in a camp in the desert while they learn Spanish, the language of their new country. As Simon and David they make their way to the relocation centre in the city of Novilla, where officialdom treats them politely but not necessarily helpfully.Simon finds a job in a grain wharf. The work is unfamiliar and backbreaking, but he soon warms to his stevedore comrades, who during breaks conduct philosophical dialogues on the dignity of labour, and generally take him to their hearts. Now he must set about his task of locating the boys mother. Though like everyone else who arrives in this new country he seems to be washed clean of all traces of memory, he is convinced he will know her when he sees her. And indeed, while walking with the boy in the countryside Simon catches sight of a woman he is certain is the mother, and persuades her to assume the role. David''s new mother comes to realise that he is an exceptional child, a bright, dreamy boy with highly unusual ideas about the world. But the school authorities detect a rebellious streak in him and insist he be sent to a special school far away. His mother refuses to yield him up, and it is Simon who must drive the car as the trio flees across the mountains.THE CHILDHOOD OF JESUS is a profound, beautiful and continually surprising novel from a very great writer.

Crua i deliciosa a la vegada, Infantesa. Escenes de la vida a províncies és el primer volum de l’autobiografia del premi Nobel de Literatura J M Coetzee. Narrat en tercera persona, Infantesa descriu

Robinson Crusoe y Foe componen una sola novela sobre los naufragios, personales y colectivos, sobre la inexistencia de tierras vírgenes, sobre los Viernes que Occidente esconde en el desván. "Como Odiseo en su singladura hacia Itaca o como el Quijote montado sobre Rocinante, Robinson Crusoe, con su loro y su sombrilla, se ha convertido en un personaje de la conciencia colectiva de Occidente." Con estas palabras, Coetzee reconoce un mito que puede y debe ser objeto de reescritura, de relectura, de parodia... En los cimientos de ambos libros, las causas y consecuencias del imperio colonial britanico.

Here, for the first time in one volume, is J. M. Coetzee''s majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir, Boyhood, Youth and Summertime.Scenes from Provincial Life opens in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s. We meet a young boy who, at home, is ill at ease with his father and stifled by his mother''s unconditional love. At school he passes every test that is set for him, but he remains wary of his fellow pupils, especially the rough Afrikaners.As a student of mathematics in Cape Town he readies himself to escape his homeland, travel to Europe and turn himself into an artist. Once in London, however, the reality is dispiriting: he toils as a computer programmer, inhabits a series of damp, dreary flats and is haunted by loneliness and boredom. He is a constitutional outsider. He fails to write.Decades later, an English biographer researches a book about the late John Coetzee, particularly the period following his return to South Africa from America. Interviewees describe an awkward man still living with his father, a man who insists on performing dull manual labour. His family regard him with suspicion and he is dogged by rumours: that he crossed the authorities in America, that he writes poetry.Scenes from Provincial Life is a heartbreaking and often very funny portrait of the artist by one of the world''s greatest writers.

Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee reimagines Daniel DeFoe''s classic novel Robinson Crusoe in Foe. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. In an act of breathtaking imagination, J.M Coetzee radically reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe. In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave, Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso''s companion and, eventually, his lover. At last they are rescued by a passing ship, but only she and Friday survive the journey back to London. Determined to have her story told, she pursues the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe in the hope that he will relate truthfully her memories to the world. But with Cruso dead, Friday incapable of speech and Foe himself intent on reshaping her narrative, Barton struggles to maintain her grip on the past, only to fall victim to the seduction of storytelling itself. Treacherous, elegant and unexpectedly moving, Foe remains one of the most exquisitely composed of this pre-eminent author''s works. ''A small miracle of a book. . . of marvellous intricacy and overwhelming power'' Washington Post ''A superb novel'' The New York Times

A fascinating dialogue on the human inclination to make up stories between a Nobel Prize-winning writer and a psychotherapist.Arabella Kurtz and J. M. Coetzee consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a concern with stories. Working alone, the writer is in sole charge of the story he or she tells. The therapist, on the other hand, collaborates with the patient in telling the story of their life. What kind of truth do the stories created by patient and therapist aim to uncover: objective truth or the shifting and subjective truth of memories explored and re-experienced in the safety of the therapeutic relationship?The authors discuss both individual psychology and the psychology of the group: the school classroom, the gang, the settler nation where the brutal deeds of the ancestors have to be accommodated into a national story. Drawing on great writers like Cervantes and Dostoevsky and on psychoanalysts like Freud and Melanie Klein, they offer illuminating insights into the stories we tell of our lives.

A fascinating dialogue on the human inclination to make up stories between a Nobel Prize-winning writer and a psychotherapist.The Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a long-standing interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies.Arabella Kurtz and J. M. Coetzee consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a concern with stories. Working alone, the writer is in sole charge of the story he or she tells. The therapist, on the other hand, collaborates with the patient in telling the story of their life. What kind of truth do the stories created by patient and therapist aim to uncover: objective truth or the shifting and subjective truth of memories explored and re-experienced in the safety of the therapeutic relationship?The authors discuss both individual psychology and the psychology of the group: the school classroom, the gang, the settler nation where the brutal deeds of the ancestors have to be accommodated into a national story. Drawing on great writers like Cervantes and Dostoevsky and on psychoanalysts like Freud and Melanie Klein, they offer illuminating insights into the stories we tell of our lives.

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J-M CoetzeeDans le droit fil de Scènes de la vie d'un jeune garçon, cet autoportrait de l'artiste en jeune homme, crispé et méfiant, éclaire la genèse de l'?uvre de J. M. Coetzee par l'évocation de s

«El territorio Coetzee es árido, inquieto, inhóspito por momentos y laberíntico. No hay cartel alguno que anuncie la salida, sencillamente porque no hay salida.» El Periódico «Una formidable lección

A masterful new novel from one of the greatest writers alive. Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart. Unflinching in its vision of suffering and generous in its portrayal of the spirit of care, Slow Man is a masterful work of fiction by one of the world's greatest writers

For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed. Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times, the Magistrate is an analogue of all men living in complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.