Finding truth in fiction
Summertime: Scenes from Provincial Life
J. M. Coetzee
London: Vintage, 2010
Pp. 266
J. M. Coetzee, famed South African — now Australian — writer, who won the 2003 Nobel Prize for literature, has published three fictionalised memoirs, sometimes termed autobiographical novels. Following “Boyhood” (1997) and “Youth” (2002), this is the third. In “Summertime”, he chooses a most unusual approach. Presupposing himself dead, he has a hypothetical researcher interview five people who knew him in the 1970s... Читать дальше...