Title : Towards Manhood - John Maxwell Coetzee - book

Summary :

Barely out of childhood, John learns to fend for himself. Convinced he's an artist, he decides to move to London. But the dream turns into a nightmare, and the budding poet is forced to take a job as a programmer at IBM to support himself. Famous for his reluctance to open up, the author reveals himself between naive candor and caustic lucidity.

Born in Cape Town in 1940, JM Coetzee teaches literature. His work, marked by the apartheid years, is acclaimed worldwide and has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. His novels are available in Points.

"John has grown up, but the author has kept the same amused distance when talking about his youthful self, which transforms him into the somewhat silly hero of a rather cruel coming-of-age novel."

Les Inrockuptibles

Translated from English (South Africa) by Catherine Lauga du Plessis

Nobel Prize in Literature 2003

Antoine de Gaudemar, Liberation

• EAN : 9782020685344
  
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