Slow Man

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Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends.He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common hers in Croatia, his in France Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart. Free Download eBook Slow Man Author J.M. Coetzee – kino-fada.fr 4 Slow man, J.M Coetzee, c2005Slow Man is a 2005 novel by South African born Nobel laureate J M Coetzee, and concerns a man who must learn to adapt after losing a leg in a road accident The novel has many varied themes, including the nature of care, the relationship between an author and his characters, and ma...I can t deny that JM Coetzee is indeed a talented writer Clear, concise, exacting prose And duh, he did win the Nobel Prize after all But I don t think this one is the one read Disgrace probably is What starts out as a quite conventional story soon morphs into something bordering on ludicrous Is it magical realism A darkly comedic satire on death vs consciousness Or just a novelist indulging in not having to adhere to any chosen path or structure And not bothering to answer some I can t deny that JM Coetzee is indeed a talented writer Clear, concise, exacting prose And duh, he did win the Nobel Prize after all But I don t think this one is the one read Disgrace probably is What starts out as a quite conventional story soon morphs into something bordering on ludicrous Is it mag...This is my first Coetzee, and for the first sixty pages, it seemed to be an interesting but not arresting book about an older man coping with losing a leg, and his mobility and freedom, and the after effects of such a loss, including falling in love with his nurse Nothing earthshattering.And then the author showed up Note The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement You can read why I came to this decision here.In the meantime, you can This is my first Coetzee, and for the first sixty pages, it seemed to be an interesting but not arresting book about an older man coping with lo...4th Coetzee book I ve read what makes this possible, not getting bored by the same author s voice while reading Coetzee all summer long, is his outstanding talent for making the novel readable All four novels I ve read Disgrace, Elizabeth Costello, Life and Times of Michael K., this, currently a fifth classic Waiting for the Barbarians are distinctly different from each other, and this being his most current perhaps there is a newer it has the figure of the lonely fallen 4th Coetzee book I ve read what makes this possible, not getting bored by the same author s voice while reading Coetzee all summer long, is his outstanding talent for making the novel readable All four novels I ve read Disgrace, Elizabeth Costello, Life and Times of Michael K., this, currently a fifth classic Waiting for the Barbarians are distinctly different from each other, and this being his most current perhaps there is a newer it has the figure of the lonely fallen man Disgrace making sense of a new way of life in this instance it is a grown man, newly amputated, slow and immobile, who takes center stage More so than Elizabeth Costello that Nobel prize worthy novel, and my...What I love about Coetzee is that he isn t afraid of fitting a tire over the goat s torso As I m reading the reviews of this book from my other Goodreads buddies, many seem disturbed by the character Elizabeth Costello, who truly breaks with logic and knows impossible details of characters In other words she is a meta character who speechifi...One of my pet annoyances is writers who say oh, I just start writing and my characters get up to the most unexpected things all on their own, I just let it happen What that translates as is I don t have a plot to speak of or any structure but I have such faith in my own vast albeit undiscovered talent that I don t feel I need one, so I simply write pages and pages of free flowing pure invention tedious drivel instead Slow Man is what happens when you let your characters write the book One of my pet annoyances is writers who say oh, I just start writing and my characters get up to the most unexpected things all on their own, I just let it happen What that translates as is I don t have a plot to speak of or any structure but I ...This review originally appeared in the San Jose Mercury News When you ve won every possible literary award, including the Nobel Prize, you re entitled to indulge yourself a little That, at least, is my explanation for how J.M Coetzee came up with this fascinating flop of a novel Slow Man begins with Paul Rayment, a photographer who lives in Australia, losing a leg in a bicycle accident The 60 year old Rayment, who lives alone and has no close family, descends into bitterness He refuses This review originally appeared in the San Jose Mercury News When you ve won every possible literary award, including the Nobel Prize, you re entitled to indulge yourself a little That, at least, is my explanation for how J.M Coetzee came up with this fascinating flop of a novel Slow Man begins with Paul Rayment, a photographer who lives in Australia, losing a leg in a bicycle accident The 60 year old Rayment, who lives alone and has no close family, descends into bitterness He refuses to have a prosthesis fitted and crankily dismisses a series of visiting nurses until he finally finds one, a Croatian woman named Marijana, with whom he can get along Then gradually he realizes that he s falling in love with her, which is something of a problem because she s married and has three children At this point, about a third of the way into the book, we have few hi...I read farthan was necessary to finally determine this book was not worth reading Upon the entrance of Elizabeth Costello I knew pretty much that I was in for a weighty disappointment The main character and his stubborn life style refusals and insistence on furthering an ill fated and inappropriate love affair left me feeling basically disgusted with the pitiful old gent I was embarrassed for all agin...The blow catches him from the right, sharp and surprising and painful, like a bolt of electricity, lifting him up off the bicycle Paul Rayment, a photographer in Adelaide, finds himself in a hospital recovering from a bicycle accident, with one leg amputated above the knee He refuses a prosthesis and opts for nursing care After going through a succession of nurses, he develops feelings for a Croatian nurse, Marijana, a married woman with three children In addition to his loss of The blow catches him from the right, sharp and surprising and painful, like a bolt of electricity, lifting him up off the bicycle Paul Rayment, a photographer in Adelaide, finds himself in a hospital recovering from a bicycle accident, with one leg amputated above the knee He refuses a prosthesis and opts for nursing care After going through a succession of nurses, he develops feelings for a Croatian nurse, Marijana, a married woman with three children In addition to his loss of independence and the problems of aging, Paul is coping with loneliness and regrets over never having children He attempts to have Marijana and her children play a major part of his life.The first third of the novel seems realistic Then the novelist Elizabeth Costello shows up at Paul s door, an annoying woman who he has never met She is a character from J.M Coetzee s previous novel She starts reciting the passage at the top of this review, The blow catches him When she first heard those words, she had asked hersel...This is a complicated book to write about in a few words On one level it is a story of a sad, isolated man who suffers the loss of a leg in an accident and who becomes hopelessly and inappropriately infatuated with the woman taking care of him On another level it is the a mediation about the craft of fiction writing and the mysterious relationship between the writer Coetzee aka Elizabeth Costello and the character he she is creating At the half w...

Slow Man
  • English
  • 19 February 2019
  • Paperback
  • 265 pages
  • 0099490625
  • J.M. Coetzee
  • Slow Man