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"In this second volume of memoirs (the first being 'Boyhood'), John is a Math and English student in Capetown, hoping to flee the country (which is in a political storm) and become a poet. He does so, arriving in London, and he doesn't feel the place is right, or the people living in it: he knows he's got talent for writing though no one seems to notice the 'sacred fire' lying within him, and he starts to suspect if poetry is what he's destined to write. Or is it prose? Or is it fiction? The book won't answer that, but the author's biography will: Coetzee won the Nobel Prize of Literature for his essays and novels. In 'Youth', John only composes his first short story, 'an experiment' with no plot.
These artistic meditations go along with his rather promiscuous life in South Afrika and England. He's also looking for the right woman, but as his experience tells him he's not capable of engaging to anyone yet. He hasn't found the one who will look into his 'sacred fire' for life either. Is there such a woman? The book doesn't tell, and the story leaves John looking forward."
Augusto Wong Campos, Resident Scholar
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Plot
job/profession:
- writer
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- writer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Biography of famous person?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- Subsaharan African
How sensitive is this person?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Africa
Yes
Kind of Africa:
- White Enclave
Century:
- 1960's-1970's
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Book makes you feel?
- thoughtful
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- impregnation/reproduction
- descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
- actual description of hetero sex
- descript. of female anat. (the big V)
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- race
- love/sex
- selfishness
- war
Writer's slant towards subject:
- neutral
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
If this is a kid's book:
- Age 16-Adult
Autobiography?
Yes
Pictures/Illustrations?
- None
How much dialogue in bio?
- little dialog
Lot of titilating info about love life?
Yes
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 0-25% of book
How much is philosophy rather than life story?
- 26-50% of book
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