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Note that we are not asked to condemn this being with the mad heart, this being with whom there is some thing constitutionally wrong. - J. M. Coetzee
" "Note that we are not asked to condemn this being with the mad heart, this being with whom there is some thing constitutionally wrong.
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About J. M. Coetzee
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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