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born 1940 South Africa

John Maxwell Coetzee (born 9 February 1940), often called J. M.

South Africa
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Also known as: Coetzee, Disgrace by J M Coetzee, Foe (J M Coetzee novel), J M Coetzee, J.M. Coetzee, John Maxwell Coetzee

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He does not as yet know England well enough to do England in prose. He is not even sure he can do the parts of London he is familiar with, the London of crowds trudging to work, of cold and rain, of bedsitters with curtainless windows and forty-watt bulbs. — Chapter 7, page 63.

Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II (2002)

I am not unaware of what such daydreams signify, dreams of becoming an unthinking savage, of taking the cold road back to the capital, of groping my way out to the ruins in the desert, of returning to the confinement of my cell, of seeking out the barbarians and offering myself to them to use as they wish.

Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)

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