J. M. Coetzee

Naissance 9 Feb 1940

Originaire de Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa · Nationalité : South Africa, Australia · Écrit de la fiction et des essais

Wikipedia

John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG (né le 9 février 1940) est un romancier, essayiste, linguiste et traducteur sud-africain et australien, lauréat du prix Nobel de littérature en 2003. Il compte parmi les auteurs de langue anglaise les plus salués par la critique et les plus récompensés.

Citations

“The new men of Empire are the ones who believe in fresh starts, new chapters, clean pages; I struggle on with the old story, hoping that before it is finished it will reveal to me why it was that I thought it worth the trouble.”
Waiting for the Barbarians, p.24En anglais
“There seemed nothing to do but live.”
Life & Times of Michael KEn anglais
“Seen from too remote a vantage, life begins to lose its particularity. All shipwrecks become the same shipwreck, all castaways the same castaway, sunburnt, lonely, clad in the skins of the beast he has slain.”
FoeEn anglais
“The world is full of islands, said Cruso once. His words ring truer every day.”
FoeEn anglais
“As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.”
Dagens Nyheter interview with David Attwell December 8, 2003En anglais