Youth - Rilegato

Coetzee, J M

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0436205823 ISBN 13: 9780436205828

Casa editrice: Secker, 2002

Riassunto

The narrator of Youth, a student in the South Africa of the 1950s, has long been plotting an escape from his native country: from the stifling love of his mother, from a father whose failures haunt him, and from what he is sure is impending revolution. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world, wherever that may be, he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art. Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Instead he succumbs to the monotony of life as a computer programmer, from which random, loveless affairs offer no relief. Devoid of inspiration, he stops writing. An awkward colonial, a constitutional outsider, he begins a dark pilgrimage in which he is continually tested and continually found wanting. Set against the background of the 1960s - Sharpeville, the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam - Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness, isolated and adrift, turning in on itself. J. M. Coetzee explores a young man's struggle to find his way in the world with tenderness and a fierce clarity. (2002-02-18)

Su questo libro

Recensione:

“Coetzee is one of the greatest writers of our time.” – Los Angeles Times

“Coetzee is able to dissect the human psyche with a surgeon’s touch.” – The Hamilton Spectator

Of the Booker Prize-winning Disgrace:
“The richness of Disgrace lies in the elegant and allegorical role reversals, the spare symbolism of the language and in the characterization. We may not like David Lurie, but in Coetzee’s skillful hands we can’t dismiss him without pity.” – The Globe and Mail

Descrizione del libro:

A remarkable, searing portrait of a young colonial in early 1960s London, his first novel since winning the Booker Prize for the second time with Disgrace. (2002-02-18)

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Secker
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0436205823
• ISBN 13: 9780436205828
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 176