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“ ”A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.
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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How many people are there left who are neither locked up nor standing guard at the gate?
The Empire does not require that its servants love each other, merely that they perform their duty.
To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes, despite the hysteria in the streets that the world of tranquil certainties we were born into is about to be extinguished.