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Blogs in January 1970

Boyhood 1st January 1970

In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood‘s young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could...

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Disgrace 1st January 1970

Disgrace takes as its complex central character 52-year-old English professor David Lurie whose preoccupation with Romantic poetry–and romancing his students–threatens to turn him into a “a moral dinosaur”. Called to account by the University for a passionate but brief...

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Slow Man 1st January 1970

On the Magill Road in Adelaide, Paul Rayment is cycling, had an accident and has his leg amputated. A succession of carers look after him at home and in particular he bonds with Marijana – they both grew up...

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Life and Times of Michael K 1st January 1970

In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned,...

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