– Nobelprisbelönade Coetzee beskriver här sin barndom i 40-50talets Sydafrika. Han skriver om sig själv i tredje person, vilket först göra att tonen känns lite distanserad och betraktande. Men ändå lyckas det vara en väldigt känslig och personlig skildring av den unge Coetzee, samt hans familj och släkt. Coetzee skildrar känslig barnets kluvna inställning till sina föräldrar. Till den beskyddande moder som han både söker sigt till, men samtidigt försöker skjuta infrån sig. Och till fader som han ibland närmast tycks förakta, men ändå fascineras av. Likt andra lyckade barndomskildringar lyckas Coetzee här både vara starkt personlig, men ändå beskriva ett barns känslor och upplevelser på ett sätt som säkert många kan känna igen sig i.
Boyhood
«As funny, cruel and terrifying as life itself. It is also intense and elegant, clearly the product of the complex, subtle imagination which shapes Coetzee's outstanding fiction... As austerely beautiful as would be expected of Coetzee the artist...its aloof, edgy grace and seething passion ensure the narrative is both truthful and mysterious»
Irish Times
The first volume of memoir from one of the world's greatest living writers: Coetzee examines his young self with dispassionate curiosity and an unflinching eye. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Vintage
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 176
- ISBN
- 9780099268277
- Utgivelsesår
- 1998
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Winner of Nobel Prize 2003.
Anmeldelser
«As funny, cruel and terrifying as life itself. It is also intense and elegant, clearly the product of the complex, subtle imagination which shapes Coetzee's outstanding fiction... As austerely beautiful as would be expected of Coetzee the artist...its aloof, edgy grace and seething passion ensure the narrative is both truthful and mysterious»
Irish Times
«This life is described with such skill, such exactitude and such relentlessness that I found myself gasping for air... Coetzee has achieved something universal in his work...a fine book, probably the best description of a childhood I have ever read»
The Times
«Boyhood is a deeply-felt and utterly compelling account of a South African childhood: the narrative style is as spare and lean as the Karoo flatlands which form its backdrop»
Daily Telegraph
«The economy with which Coetzee makes sense of his past is evidence, once again, of his outstanding talent»
Independent on Sunday
«An uncannily accurate picture of the way things were in South Africa»
Literary Review