Date: 1997
"He does not want to know. So much does he not want to know that he can feel a hand go up inside his own head to block his ears, block his sight."
preview | full record— Coetzee, J. M. (b. 1940)
Date: 2002
"And anyway, whether mad or miserable, how can one write when tiredness is like a gloved hand gripping one's brain and squeezing?"
preview | full record— Coetzee, J. M. (b. 1940)