Infancia by J.M. Coetzee
Scenes from Provincial Life
A spare, reflective memoir of growing up in mid-20th-century South Africa that traces a boy’s impressions of family, school and landscape as he negotiates loneliness, awkwardness and the slow formation of identity. The narrative records small humiliations and formative encounters—with teachers, peers, parents, books and animals—that shape his moral imagination, rendered in precise, restrained prose that favors observation over melodrama. Through moments of solitude and bewilderment, the book maps how memory and language reconstruct a vulnerable, searching childhood.
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- Published
- 1997
- Nationality
- South African
- Length
- Unknown
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- Unknown
- Original Language
- English
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- Boyhood
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