by J. M. Coetzee · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099452041
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«Youth» is the literary fiction novel by J. M. Coetzee, published by Vintage in paperback (176 pages, in English).
A South African student in the fifties plans to escape his country and arrive in London ready to live intensely and turn life into art. In sixties London he finds neither poetry nor romance, but the routine of a computer programmer and loveless relationships, and he stops writing. Portrait of an isolated consciousness in adulthood.
Second installment of the «Scenes from Provincial Life» series. The Vintage edition is from 2003; the work originally appeared in 2002.
For readers of literary fiction and of the narrative of J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize in Literature.
John Maxwell Coetzee AC FRSL OMG is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.
