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Boyhood is unusual not only in style, but in motive as well. While most writers of memoirs blame their parents for turning them into screw-ups, Coetzee takes a decidely unconventional turn. The young Coetzee resents his privilege. At school, he is the model student, finishing first in all his...
Autobiographies tend to fall into three broad categories: lives of the rich and famous, twisted tales of the dysfunctional and portraits of artists as young scamps. Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life, the new memoir by J.M. Coetzee, a South African novelist and Booker Prize-winner, ostensibly falls into the final...
Coetzee's double-life becomes more difficult to balance as social tensions increase. As the child of Anglicized Afrikaners who left the farm, Coetzee is accepted by neither the local Afrikaans children nor Worcester's English society. His lack of religious education causes further problems at school. When cornered by...
It was De Klerk who held together a party long divided between conservatives and moderates--in the Afrikaans parlance the verkramptes (inflexible right wing) and verligtes (enlightened moderates). In May one of the National Party's leading verligtes, Roelf Meyer, whom De Klerk had appointed head of a task team...
Still, the man who appears to bear paramount responsibility may never be brought to court. P.W. Botha, 80, sits in virtual seclusion in retirement on the south coast of the cape. Botha, who suffered a stroke before his 1989 resignation, appears increasingly enfeebled; that, plus his legendary irascibility, may make...