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Coetzee’s Boyhood Photographs

• michel__ 9y ago
  It's a shame to have lost such a literary great. His work will most definitely live on.
  • Numberwang 9y ago
    Is he dead?
    • sleazy_b 9y ago
      Not as far as I can tell
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    • lobster_johnson 9y ago
      Could be a sly reference to Summertime, an autobiographical novel (considered the third in the sequence that begins with Boyhood and Youth) in which Coetzee dies before finishing his biography. Or just some weird kind of trolling.
• sleazy_b 9y ago
  Kind of a strange read. I'm a huge fan of Coetzee, but I'm more interested in these photographs for what they can tell me about Coetzee the author (biographically) than I am in their artistic merits. The author of this article seems intent on ascribing an artistry to these photos taken by a teenager that presumes the intentionality of his writing of later years. I'm not saying it's not there, but saying, "[t]he images conjure Waiting for Godot (which Coetzee would not yet, by then, have read)..." seem to undermine the premise.
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