![]() Coetzee, writing in the third person, gives a strikingly spare and unsentimental portrait of himself as he was at university. But early in the second volume of his wonderful autobiography, J.M. Most authors contemplating their younger days brim with a naive self-love. ![]() ![]() Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness, isolated and adrift, turning in on itself, of a young man struggling to find his way in the world, written with tenderness and a fierce clarity. Arriving at last in London in the 1960s, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance and instead begins a dark pilgrimage into adulthood. The narrator of Youth has long been plotting an escape-from the stifling love of his overbearing mother, a father whose failures haunt him, and what he is sure is impending revolution in his native country of South Africa. Coetzee's fictionalized "memoir" explores a young man's struggle to experience life to its full intensity and transform it into art. ![]() ![]() Synopsis of Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II ![]()
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