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De Kinderjaren Van Jezus (2013)

by J.M. Coetzee(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

9059363884 (ISBN13: 9789059363885)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Uitgeverij Cossee

review 1: This book might be a five star, but it leaves so many questions that I haven't yet decided for sure! In many ways this is a brilliant book. There are philosophical and religious themes one could teach a whole class on. The world this book takes place in is simultaneously fascinating and dull, which in itself is an accomplishment for a writer. All in all it's a very good book that will really make you think. Just don't expect any answers.
review 2: If you can imagine Kafka crossed with Thomas King you might have some idea of the experience this book offers. Strange, cool, philosophical, and floating, the story investigates family, place, labour, belonging, education, self, and other. The prose is lean, just as the relationships are lean. Childhood is inward, an... mored solipsism threatens at every turn. This is a book about regeneration and rebirth and recurrence and recovery, although nothing regenerates, nothing is reborn, nothing recovers, and no recurrence occurs. Characters act, for the most part, in a benign manner, belying the Kafkaesque sensibility and atmosphere. The play with names gives testimony to the book's profound mise en abyme. In short, I like this book. less

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