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This was hard to read, pure suffering. But like a narrator toward the end, I came to admire Michael K. Unassuming people . . . are they destined to inherit the world's shit? Maybe. And since that is so, the world is unworthy of them. Michael K lives and feels so innocently. He expects almost nothing. If only more people in the world were like him, we would not be hurtling toward self-destruction. Upon reflection, I see this as a perfect parable. Michael K wants only to cultivate, to grow, to obs
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This was my first Coetzee, I remember it being a short book but difficult to read. It was very bleak. Michael K was not a character that I engaged or related to. Set in Aparthied South Africa. Michael leaves his job as a gardener to take his mother back home in the country. She dies and Michael is isolated.
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pg 116, "whether the camp was declared a parasite on the town or the town a parasite on the camp depended on no more than on who made his voice heard the loudest."
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pg 116, "whether the camp was declared a parasite on the town or the town a parasite on the camp depended on no more than on who made his voice heard the loudest."
"... and her own mother ...more
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