J. M. Coetzee: Diary of a Bad Year

Critica no New York Times do último livro do Sul Africano J. M. Coetzee - Diary of a Bad Year.

“Diary of a Bad Year” coerces us to harden what Coleridge identified as “that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith” into a willed suspension of disbelief, an act that is conscious, purposeful and informed. To want to be told a story built up “out of nothing,” to have our edification with a spoonful of fiction, would seem to be an old-fashioned, even prelapsarian desire. This novel’s fall from the grace of a purely imagined world is a matter of self-conscious nakedness, of insisting we see undisguised rhetorical tricks we might prefer cloaked with artifice.