first thing I read JM Coetzee's Disgrace was , and immediately seduced me his direct and uncompromising prose, the ideal vehicle to recreate the misadventures of Professor David Lurie, a victim of the hypocrisy of a university system based on the premise of political correctness. At that meeting was followed by other, all equally rewarding, although I accept that Life and Times of Michael K and Iron Age have impressed me to the point of "forced" to reread. Then I met her no less important critical work, and regularly consult with foreign Costas and censorship against . Diary of a Bad Year struck me as extraordinary, especially as it was evident the way he tried to move away from a certain stylistic narrative had become a habit for her legion of readers
After a brief recess, Coetzee, a shy person and little friends of fame and the spotlight, he describes himself in Summer. It does so in third person, as in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in 2003. Before you write your biography decided to take the bull by the horns, play dead and tell his life through characters and situations in which it is impossible to demarcate how much is reality and how much fiction.
A quick summary of Summer can start by saying that it is the writer's life told by those who knew him fairly depth, based on the idea that Coetzee has died. Central element of this story is the biographer Vincent, embroiled in an investigation into the life of Coetzee. To this end interview five people who played an important role in the life of the writer. A lover, a childhood sweetheart, a family with whom he shared more than just games and a couple of friends from college. "Sounds like Coetzee, isn't it?
And to open a little appetite, stop reading this piece .
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