J.M. Coetzee
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born
February 09, 1940
gender
male
place of birth
Cape Town, South Africa
influences
Samuel Beckett, Ford Madox Ford, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Daniel Defoe, Franz Kafka
about this author
John Maxwell Coetzee
Awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, commended for being an author "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider."
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Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee avg rating 3.83 — 7,401 ratings — published 1999 45 editions |
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Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by J.M. Coetzee, محسن مینو خرد / Mohsen Minoo Kherad avg rating 4.05 — 2,143 ratings — published 1980 22 editions |
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Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee avg rating 3.85 — 1,163 ratings — published 1986 26 editions |
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Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee avg rating 3.34 — 1,152 ratings — published 2001 22 editions |
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Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee avg rating 3.33 — 936 ratings — published 2005 22 editions |
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Foe by J.M. Coetzee avg rating 3.52 — 770 ratings — published 1986 18 editions |
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Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee avg rating 3.63 — 624 ratings — published 2007 13 editions |
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Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II by J.M. Coetzee avg rating 3.75 — 416 ratings — published 2002 15 editions |
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Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee avg rating 3.79 — 379 ratings — published 1990 16 editions |
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The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee avg rating 3.69 — 293 ratings — published 1994 15 editions |
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"Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light."
— J.M. Coetzee (Slow Man)
— J.M. Coetzee (Slow Man)
"His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul."
— J.M. Coetzee (Disgrace)
— J.M. Coetzee (Disgrace)
"But with this woman it is as if there is no interior, only a surface across which I hunt back and forth seeking entry. Is this how her torturers felt hunting their secret, whatever they thought it was? For the first time I feel a dry pity for them: how natural a mistake to believe that you can burn or tear or hack your way into the secret body of the other! The girl lies in my bed, but there is no good reason why it should be a bed. I behave in some ways like a lover—I undress her, I bathe her, I stroke her, I sleep beside her—but I might equally well tie her to a chair and beat her, it would be no less intimate."
— J.M. Coetzee (Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel)
— J.M. Coetzee (Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel)
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