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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823
EAN: 9780140074482
ISBN: 0140074481
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: January 08, 1985
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Sales Rank: 144456
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and Times of Michael K goes to the centre of human experience -- the need for an interior, spiritual life, for some connections to the world in which we live, and for purity of vision.
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"Michael K" is not your grandma's South African novel. It would be expected that this book would discuss the oppression of Apartheid, but it goes above and beyond this by capturing the essence, in a most unwilling and unaware character, of the human spirit's ability to survive on practically nothing but its own sheer will. Michael K is an oppressed character under the Apartheid regime, yet the politics of the country are only vaguely referenced here in various facilities Michael visits and people ... Read More
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On the first page of The Life and Times of Michael K there is a beautiful similie - the newly born Michael's hare lip curling 'like a snail'. That's all you are going to get in terms of finely wrought imagery from here on in. The rest of this compact novel unfolds in tough, sinewey prose. Hard, spare and with a dry elegance that is Coetzee's signature style.
Michael K is a gardener, a man of limited intelligence who lives a sort of hunkered down life, battling bravely on his own terms ... Read More
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este libro me re shockeó. me impactó mucho el punto de vista del protagonista, que me llevó de paseo por lugares que me eran desconocidos. me impresionó cómo está contada la historia, con un lenguaje crudo, llano, visceral, contundente, pero sin golpes bajos. también me impresionó la falta de piedad del autor con su personaje. y el grado de verosimilitud que logra siendo que le pasan tantas cosas que uno podría decir "no puede ser". pero es. y es y es y uno no puede parar de leer. la dimensión ... Read More
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People just will not let you live a way of life they don't understand. Michael K, misunderstood by just about everybody, finds out in this dark but beautiful novel. Coetzee describes the struggle of someone who, being neither smart or beautiful, finds it impossible to withdraw from the world. Michael is a simple man with a hare lip who wants to be left alone and live life on his own terms. However, in the war-torn South Africa through which he ends up journeying, no hiding place is secure from bullying war ... Read More
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Literary historians credit much of Ireland's rich literary tradition to its often tragic history. No surprise then that the nation of South Africa, likewise so rich in grief that it might as well diamonds, has produced so many extraordinary writers, two of whom, Coetzee included, who can boast a Nobel Prize. Which brings us to one of his many fine novels, the Life and Times of Michael K.
Telling the tale of a black man caught in the twisted and violent web of Apartheid might appear at first an ... Read More
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