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Scenes from the life of a provincial. Boyhood. Youth. Summertime

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John Maxwell Coetzee was born in South Africa, has worked in England and the United States, and lives in Australia. A two-time Booker Prize winner and Nobel Prize winner in Literature, he has not attended a single award ceremony, gives almost no interviews, and lives, one might say, a recluse. He rarely speaks about his work, and almost never about himself. The more unique "autobiographical" trilogy "Scenes from the life of a provincial", full of episodes of shocking frankness - "in front of the reader is formed the most detailed, unadorned, mosaic portrait of the creator, striving only to what is not easy to achieve. Not all the facts coincide with what we know about the biography of the real Coetzee, but the more interesting is the resulting stereo effect" (The Seattle Times). From childhood in the South African outback, through adolescence at Cape Town University and cold London to the "summertime" of maturity, we see Kutzey (or "Kutzey") as closely as we have never seen him before: "a self-portrait uncompromisingly confessional and yet intricately rippling" (The New York Review of Books). The trilogy comes in a translation by Sergei Ilyin (1948-2017), a celebrated interpreter of the works of Vladimir Nabokov and Joseph Heller, T. H. White and Mervyn Peake, Stephen Fry, Michel Faber, and many other modern classics.
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