Summertime: Scenes From Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee

Author:J. M. Coetzee
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Autobiographical fiction, South African, Biographical, Novelists, Fiction, Romance, General
ISBN: 9781846553189
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 2009-09-01T10:00:00+00:00

'He doesn't have plans. He is a Coetzee, Coetzees don't have plans, they don't have ambitions, they only have idle longings. He has an idle longing to live in the Karoo.'

'His ambition is to be a poet, a full-time poet. This Merweville scheme has nothing to do with his father's welfare. He wants a place in the Karoo where he can come when it suits him, where he can sit with his chin on his hands and contemplate the sunset and write poems.'

John and his poems again! She can't help it, she snorts with laughter. John sitting on the stoep of that dreary little house making up poems! With a beret on his head, no doubt, and a glass of wine at his elbow. And the little Coloured children clustered around him, pestering him with questions. Wat maak oom? – Nee, oom maak gedigte. Op sy ou ramkiekie maak oom gedigte. Die wêreld is ons woning nie . . . What is sir doing? – Sir is making poems. On his old banjo sir is making poems. This world is not our dwelling-place . . .

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