J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee
John Maxwell "J. M." Coetzeeis a South African novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He relocated to Australia in 2002 and lives in Adelaide. He became an Australian citizen in 2006...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth9 February 1940
J. M. Coetzee quotes about
african exactly people south
South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
strong mind literature
There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
reason tautology
Reason is simply a vast tautology.
time one-day machines
One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.
time drinking breathing
Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.
outstanding
[Hariharan is] an outstanding writer.
sage literature occupation
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.