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Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II by Coetzee, J. M. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Set against the background of the 1960s, Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness turning in on itself. J.M. Coetzee explores a young man's struggle to find his way in the world with tenderness and a fierce clarity.The second installment of J. M. Coetzee's fictionalized "memoir" explores a young man's struggle to experience life to its full intensity and transform it into art. The narrator of Youth has long been plotting an escape-from the stifling love of his overbearing mother, a father whose failures haunt him, and what he is sure is impending revolution in his native country of South Africa. Arriving at last in London in the 1960s, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance and instead begins a dark pilgrimage into adulthood. Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness, isolated and adrift, turning in on itself, of a young man struggling to find his way in the world, written with tenderness and a fierce clarity.

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Author

Coetzee, J. M.

Publisher

Vintage Books

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780436275937

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Rating

3.79 / 5 (373 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14