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I really liked Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life but Coetzee's fictionalised older consciousness can be fairly irritating, even if it is realistic.
In short: he leaves Capetown for England, works as a computer programmer, tries to start a few meaningful sexual relationships with women he cannot connect with, and broods upon the nature of art and being an artist. Most of the time, he is lonely, so lonely that it stifles the reader too.
Man, Coetzee can be depressing. ...more
In short: he leaves Capetown for England, works as a computer programmer, tries to start a few meaningful sexual relationships with women he cannot connect with, and broods upon the nature of art and being an artist. Most of the time, he is lonely, so lonely that it stifles the reader too.
Man, Coetzee can be depressing. ...more
J.M. Coetzee is an interesting writer. Apparently, he is a well-known South Africa author and I read this book to get a taste of his style.
I found Youth to be rather depressing. The main character is a computer programmer who comes to London to escape 1950s South Africa. Totally alienated from friends and family, he has a series of loveless relationships and friendships. The character desperately wants to be a writer, but he sort collapses in on himself. In a way its a very modern tale of the s ...more
I found Youth to be rather depressing. The main character is a computer programmer who comes to London to escape 1950s South Africa. Totally alienated from friends and family, he has a series of loveless relationships and friendships. The character desperately wants to be a writer, but he sort collapses in on himself. In a way its a very modern tale of the s ...more
It must have been well written because I kept reading it even though the main character the plot and the outcome were very very grey. 100 pages longer however and I may have stopped.
Jul 22, 2010
Ching-In
marked it as to-read
Mar 10, 2013
Kent Winward
marked it as to-read
