Youth / J.M. Coetzee.

By:

Coetzee, J. M, 1940-

Contributor(s):

Coetzee, J. M

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Secker & Warburg, 2002.Description: 169 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

Book

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0436205823
9780436205828
0436275937
9780436275937
0099433621
9780099433620

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Youth.DDC classification:

FIC COE 21

LOC classification:

PR9369.3.C58 Y68 2002b

Other classification:

18.07
17.97
HP 3340
7,26

Online resources:

Available additional physical forms:

Also issued online.

Summary: 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.--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Botho University Lesotho Fiction	Fiction	FIC COE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		BK000854

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.--BOOK JACKET.

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