Summer (collected Works of Coetzee)
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About This Novel
"Summer" is a novel by the famous South African writer and Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee. It is the third part of the "Trilogy of Scenes from Provincial Life". Together with "Boy" and "Youth", it forms a complete autobiographical trilogy. In "Summer", Coetzee takes the subtle and confusing memoir style of alternate reality and fiction a step further: the famous writer Coetzee is dead; in order to write a biography of the late writer, a young British writer searches for Coetzee's ghostly middle age like a detective and talks to the important figures in Coetzee's life one by one. This is a unique work, an "autobiography" from the perspective of others, and also an extremely poignant and profound self-exploration and self-expression of the writer.
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