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  ‘You and Fidel seem to get on well together,’ he remarks to the boy once they are alone. ‘He is my best friend.’ ‘So Fidel feels goodwill ...

  A writer deliberately wanted to be inscrutable on the page, and it was the fault of the reader not to see the thicket for the bush. In the...

Summertime: Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee (Harvill Secker, 2009) Cover page : This is the 8th novel by Coetzee that I...

Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee (Viking Penguin, 2003) The lecture as a species of the novel? And this academic invasion works ? I...