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Part of series: Scenes from Provincial Life Part 2
Key ideas from the book
- A student prepares to leave South Africa for London in search of a fuller life.
- The narrator’s hopes for art and experience meet the routine of office work.
- The novel explores the gap between poetic ambition and everyday life.
- The narrator’s relationships offer little relief from his growing disillusionment.
- The story follows an inward struggle to find direction and creative purpose.
About Youth by J.M. Coetzee
In this literary novel, a student in 1950s South Africa prepares to leave for London, studying mathematics, reading poetry and saving money in the hope of becoming an artist. The story follows his move to the city and his work as a computer programmer, where daily routine and loveless affairs leave him short of the poetic intensity he had expected.
Coetzee portrays a young man whose hopes for life and art meet disappointment, and whose attempts to write give way to an inward search for direction. Readers interested in literary fiction, South African writing and stories of artistic ambition will find a focused portrait of a consciousness in crisis.
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