#Coetzee

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Life is so outrageous I could not have imagined it, made all the sweeter because it cannot last. It is all about today. Today is the best day ever because tomorrow might not happen.

- Hendri Coetzee, Living The Best Day Ever

[unionizedwizard]

currently reading Coetzee's Age of Iron while listening to extremely fun and silly and happy 60's music. talk about tonal whiplash

[philosophybitmaps]

[comeinizia]

189. Aspettando i barbari

[puntidifuga]

The waterskater, that is an insect and dumb, traces the name of God on the surfaces of ponds, or so the Arabians say.

J. M. Coetzee, Foe

[whatdoeschronicevenmean]

The Life and Times of Michael K

“He would clear the rubble from the mouth of the shaft, he would bend the handle of the teaspoon in a loop and tie the string to it, he would lower it down the shaft deep into the earth, and when he brought it up there would be water in the bowl of the spoon; and in that way, he would say, one can live”

[twafordizzy]

Nadine Gordimer kent haar types

bron beeld: times.com Het leven is vooraleer een reis met onderweg veel lijden, aldus Homerus in een zeer korte samenvatting van wat Ilias en Odyssee ons als lezer leerde. Elke roman daarna doet daar kond van, in meerdere of mindere mate. Met Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) verplaats ik me naar Zuid-Afrika, een land waarmee ik eerder al kennismaakte door het werk van Coetzee. Zuid-Afrika is het land…

[cannibalguy]

Need to feed, need to breed: THE DYING BREED (Jody Dwyer, 2008)

Two hundred years ago (July 19 1824), Alexander Pearce was hanged in Hobart, Tasmania, and his body dissected for research. He was a cannibal. Australia has a bit of a dearth of cannibal stories (compared to places like the USA and Russia). Ask Aussies about cannibalism and they will often make a joke about state or federal politicians. Then they may search their memories and come up with…

[a2zsportsnews]

South Africa loses fast bowler Gerald Coetzee for Test series in West Indies

Fast bowler Gerald Coetzee has been ruled out of next month’s Test series in the West Indies due to a left side strain suffered playing Twenty20 cricket in the United States, Cricket South Africa said on Thursday. He sustained the injury earlier this month and returned to South Africa for medical tests, which have ruled him out of the trip to the Caribbean. Proteas Men’s fast bowler Gerald…

[viecome]

Coetzee y la flor negra de la civilización (I)

Imagen de archivo de John Maxwell Coetzee- Foto: Europa Press El profundo análisis de dos obras con las que el Nobel de Literatura obtuvo su madurez como escritor: ‘Esperando a los bárbaros’ (1980) y ‘Vida y época de Michael K.’ (1983). Origen: Coetzee y la flor negra de la civilización (I)

[floatsonabigballoon28]

It's the fact that you saw Amruta Patil and thought of her

And saw J.M Coetzee and thought of me.

[the-harvest-field]

The Reflection of your Eye

How the night falls into a slumber, the lights reflect a love of sacrifice. The blessings is beyond comparison in the inner soul, mind and heart when one leaves all sin behind, when one finds the hidden door of the mind. I dedicate my life to Christ and will do all I can to be on par with my best, and to exceed the best I ever gave for Christ. The Dark blue Water of the Sea As she looks into my…

[fujimoto-h]

J.M.クッツェー『マイケル・K』（岩波文庫）を読み終えた。 #finishedreading #독서 #Coetzee #LifeandTimesofMichaelK https://www.instagram.com/p/CouBzkjygK4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ceciliaduranmena]

La historia de una pasión tardía

Coetzee, J.M. [T. Dimópolus, M](2022) El Polaco, El hilo de Ariadna, Madrid ¿Quién nos puede decir que el amor, cualquier amor es inadecuado, inoportuno o extemporáneo? J.M. Coetzee nos asegura en la novela El Polaco, que no será él quien juzgue así el sentimiento.  Con una sencillez de alta precisión, el autor nos habla de un romance entre una mujer casada y un artista viejo. No hay novedad en…