Life and Times of Michael K
1983 • 192 pages
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Average rating3.5
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Average rating3.5
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and Times of Michael K goes to the centre of human experience -- the need for an interior, spiritual life, for some connections to the world in which we live, and for purity of vision.
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Denne fant jeg totalt forvirrende, og den litt merkelige halvmagiske realismen passet ikke inn i min begrepsverden akkurat da jeg leste den. Det er mange år siden, og det er derfor godt mulig jeg ville opplevd den annerledes nå. Skal huske at de litterære referanserammene mine til Sør-Afrika da jeg leste denne boken var André Brink og Wilbur Smith. Disgrace var en mer fantastisk leseopplevelse, så det er ikke at jeg ikke har tro på forfatteren.
