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A review by noahregained
The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy by Arabella Kurtz, J.M. Coetzee
3.0
My heart goes out to anyone who read this without already being very fond of Coetzee. He's brilliant but(/and) he's so much of himself.
I love Coetzee's 'Elizabeth Costello,' which I think is a very personal writing (Costello is so much of him) and a commanding interpretation of what fiction is. I'm not as fond of 'secondary Coetzee,' person Coetzee, Coetzee out of his fictive shell. But he's about as sage, as analytic, as charming (he's very heavyhanded) as one can expect.
I knew that some ruminations on 'Austerlitz' were the ending of the book. It actually unfolds in a very funny way: Kurtz introducing the book because she sees it relating to narrative in one way; the novelist Coetzee countering this with his [and my] reality that the novel has a complicated, farcical, sinister?, detached, literally foggy relationship with narrative (events unfold in that book through the interpenetration of narrator and protagonist) and the world (it's history, it's people, it's beautiful, and I'm so tired).
I love Coetzee's 'Elizabeth Costello,' which I think is a very personal writing (Costello is so much of him) and a commanding interpretation of what fiction is. I'm not as fond of 'secondary Coetzee,' person Coetzee, Coetzee out of his fictive shell. But he's about as sage, as analytic, as charming (he's very heavyhanded) as one can expect.
I knew that some ruminations on 'Austerlitz' were the ending of the book. It actually unfolds in a very funny way: Kurtz introducing the book because she sees it relating to narrative in one way; the novelist Coetzee countering this with his [and my] reality that the novel has a complicated, farcical, sinister?, detached, literally foggy relationship with narrative (events unfold in that book through the interpenetration of narrator and protagonist) and the world (it's history, it's people, it's beautiful, and I'm so tired).