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J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus’ Trilogy: A Search for Answers
- Author(s):
- Hania A.M. Nashef (see profile)
- Date:
- 2023
- Group(s):
- CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, CLCS Global Anglophone, Critical Studies in World Literature, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone
- Subject(s):
- Coetzee, J. M., 1940-, Childhood of Jesus (Coetzee, J. M.)
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- The Childhood of Jesus, The Schooldays of Jesus, The Death of Jesus, Trilogy
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/wevw-q063
- Abstract:
- The 2019 novel by the South African-Australian Nobel laureate, J M Coetzee, The Death of Jesus, is a third book in a sequence that includes Jesus in its title; like its predecessors it follows the lives of a recently constructed family in the dystopian Spanish-speaking towns of Novilla and Estrella. The surreal trilogy, which began with The Childhood of Jesus (2013), and then The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), presents us with unreal worlds, leaving us searching for meaning. This fable-like fantasy, which expands the author’s ‘late style’, challenges the genre of fiction itself. Typical of late style, the trilogy resists closure and resolution. The debated ideas are generated by characters who were forced to forsake their memories and histories. Even though the protagonists begin to embody the very ideas they debate, answers are not forthcoming.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 months ago
- License:
- Attribution
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