In Summer biographer tells how a recently deceased author is looking for several people who knew him for interviews and from his testimony to reconstruct the book in which the author was working before die, the third of his autobiography novel as it concerns his life in the 70's in South Africa. The plot thickens when we know that this author who has just died in Australia was John Coetzee, and the book he was working on would be the continuation of his earlier works Children and Youth , ie the book at hand. This time the author appeared to us not enough to make a third-person fictional account of his life as he did in the two previous books, this time also had to fake his own death and let others (and some notes from his journals) speak for him. This
portray alien life through testimony given to the novel a variety added because the respondents are not limited to talk about the dead author, but primarily and above all they talk about themselves and the time when they met John Coetzee. But to what extent can we give credence to such testimony? Respondents in the best have the facts from their perspective, many choose not to discuss certain issues and in some cases even suspect that we are telling a distorted version of history. All autobiography is a work of fiction about the life of one, it is said somewhere in this novel, and this applies both to the testimonies of people who knew the writer and the extracts from the diary that writer maintained. Journalistic tone and realistic not only underscores how little we really know about others and about ourselves.
Summer is one of the best books I've read. A book with a very complicated planning and construction, which causes dizziness who tries to imagine all the different layers of reality that is contained therein. And at the same time, and this is my essence, a book of simple and clear invoice, which can be read in one sitting and is accessible to any reader. A book that proves that one need not be boring or unintelligible writing novels groundbreaking, deep, committed and innovative. If not I had already given the Nobel to the author, it should only be given by this book. And give not reach the Booker Prize for the third time is simply a disgrace.
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