J. M. Coetzee Quotes

South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)

John Maxwell Coetzee (born 9 February 1940), often called J. M. Coetzee, is a South African-born writer and academic. A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He now lives in Australia.

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Native Name: John Maxwell Coetzee

Alternative Names: John Coetzee • J.M. Coetzee

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In a sea of fallen leaves we sit, she and I, two substantial beings.

It occurs to me that we crush insects beneath our feet, miracles of creation too, beetles, worms, cockroaches, ants, in their various ways.

Empire as located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged time of rise and fall, of beginning and end, of catastrophe.

All is allegory... Each creature is key to all other creatures.

The stranger (who was of course the Cruso I told you of).

Day by day the wind picks at the roof and the weeds creep across the terraces.

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