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3.34 AVERAGE
3.34 AVERAGE
"'What kind of philosophy would you like instead?' asks Eugenio.
'The kind that shakes one. That changes one's life.'"
With scenes of rule-following in reading and math, descriptions of language as a life, The Childhood of Jesus reads like Coetzee's engagement with Wittgenstein's later philosophy.
'The kind that shakes one. That changes one's life.'"
With scenes of rule-following in reading and math, descriptions of language as a life, The Childhood of Jesus reads like Coetzee's engagement with Wittgenstein's later philosophy.
What I assumed was going to be a thought-provoking story laced with rich metaphor turned out to be dry and repetitive. I couldn't engage with any of the characters, and outright disliked the protagonist. Ugh. I fully understand that this was meant to be a kind of parable, but it felt uninspired. You have to be interested to find meaning in an allegory, and to get interested you have to enjoy the characters involved. The only part I really felt on a deeper level was the loss of mother and father that you cannot ever find again and can only try with little success to replace-- the story of every refugee in a strange land.