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The Schooldays of Jesus por J. M. Coetzee
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The Schooldays of Jesus (original 2016; edição 2016)

por J. M. Coetzee (Autor)

Séries: Jesus trilogy (2)

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From the Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, the haunting sequel to The Childhood of Jesus, continuing the journey of David, Simon, and Ines. "When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. There is no history. The boat docks at the harbour and we climb down the gangplank and we are plunged into the here and now. Time begins." David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simon and Ines take care of him in their new town, Estrella. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog Bolivar to watch over him. But he'll be seven soon and he should be at school. And so, with the guidance of the three sisters who own the farm where Simon and Ines work, David is enrolled in the Academy of Dance. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky. But it is here, too, that he will make troubling discoveries about what grown-ups are capable of. In this mesmerizing allegorical tale, Coetzee deftly grapples with the big questions of growing up, of what it means to be a parent, the constant battle between intellect and emotion, and how we choose to live our lives.… (mais)
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Título:The Schooldays of Jesus
Autores:J. M. Coetzee (Autor)
Informação:Harvill Secker (2016), Edition: 01, 272 pages
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The second in the trilogy by Coetzee. David, 6 years old now is enrolled in school, an academy of dance, where children are taught to dance numbers (1, 2, 3 etc). Their dancing, they are taught will call down the numbers from the sky where they live. (Yeah, it struck me as a little weird too.)

I enjoyed the first book in the series, this book was very different and I had a hard time trying to see Coetzee was going with it. I will read the final instalment, but I am a bit wary. ( )
  Steven1958 | Feb 16, 2023 |
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  ibkennedy | Aug 23, 2021 |
Why do people dislike these books so much? I don't understand. They're not hard; you're not missing something. It's exactly what it says it is: people have died, they're in a new world, they're trying to work out how to live there. Yes, there are biblical references. Yes, there are thoughts about migration. But it's not like you need a guidebook to it all.

In the past, I've disliked Coetzee's more Kafkan efforts, but in the Jesus novels he's getting it precisely right. As with Kafka, people reading them will always understand either too much, or too little. ( )
1 vote stillatim | Oct 23, 2020 |
Exceptional writing as always from Coetzee. This book, the second in a trilogy, brings forward the story of Simón and the boy Davíd who is in his care. The book is more philosophy than story, bringing points of view on art and numbers that are told from rational, academic and theoretical standpoints by the characters. Different philosophical theories are wrapped together through the acts and actions of the dance teacher Ana Magdalena and the uncouth museum attendant Dmitri who is infatuated with her, and how they bring their influence into the life of the child Davíd.

Continuing on from the previous book in the series, the world is constructed around migration to a new place, and the forgetting of the old. Gripping and stark, and very strange, this book (and its predecessor) feel like a culmination of the author's ideas from his career. ( )
1 vote ephemeral_future | Aug 20, 2020 |
Net als in de Kinderdagen van Jezus blijf je bij dit tweede boek achter met niks dan vragen: wie is die David nu toch eigenlijk? Waar gaat dit boek over? Welke boodschap moeten we hieruit distilleren? Is er wel een boodschap, of speelt Coetzee gewoon een spel met de lezer? Enzovoort.
Ik herinner me dat ik uit het eerste boek de these had gehaald dat het Coetzee te doen is om tegendraadsheid, dat hij wilde illustreren dat mensen die tegen het heersende denken en de sociale normen ingaan, wel eens gelijk kunnen hebben, of op zijn minst het recht hebben om anders te zijn. In die zin stond vooral de kleine David centraal in dat eerste deel, met subtiele hints in de richting van het Christelijke Drievuldigheidsverhaal (Jozef-Maria-Jezus).
Maar dat is nu net minder het geval in dit tweede deel. Surrogaatmoeder Ines blijft in ‘De Schooljaren van Jezus’ zelfs bijna helemaal uit beeld. En de kleine David blijft zijn eigenste zelve: dwarsliggend, voortdurend “waarom?” Vragend, ingaand tegen de wereld van de volwassenen, eigenzinnig-grillig en egocentrisch. In die zin is er bij David in dit deel heel weinig evolutie, met uitzondering van zijn fascinatie voor de numerologische theorie van de dansacademie waar hij terecht komt (zie verder).
Vandaar mijn nieuwe these: deze roman-cyclus draait niet om David/Jezus, maar om Simon, de bezorgde vaderfiguur. Net als in het eerste deel zoomt Coetzee in op de geduldige pogingen van de man om David te begrijpen, om hem de gang van de wereld uit te leggen, maar nieuw is dat we Simon geregeld wanhopig zien worden, zijn geduld zien verliezen en zelfs zien uitvallen tegen David en anderen. En nieuw is ook dat Simon duidelijk worstelt met die bijzondere aanpak van de dansacademie waar hij David heeft ingeschreven en waar een numerologische filosofie wordt gevolgd die hij maar niet begrijpt: de kinderen wordt er via muziek en dans geleerd getallen van bij de sterren ‘naar beneden te halen’, een duidelijke verwijzing naar de Pythagorese filosofie. Voor mij is het duidelijk dat Simon in dit deel staat voor de rationele mens die wanhopig probeert de fenomenen en visies die niet passen in het rationele straatje, te plaatsen, maar daar (voorlopig?) niet in lukken.
Het moordverhaal rond de museumsuppoost Dmitri is daar ook een staaltje van. Coetzee refereert hier duidelijk aan Dostojevski en voert met Dmitri een bijna dubbelganger op van de Dimitri uit de Gebroeders Karamazov. Samen met hem begrijpt de hele goegemeenschap niet waarom de moord is begaan. Ook hier dus het raadsel van de irrationaliteit (de vraag naar de rol van hartstocht) die onze ‘redelijke’ wereld voor schut zet. Literair-compositorisch vond ik het hele moordverhaal overigens een zwak element, die het hele tweede deel tot een iets minder niveau telt dan het eerste. Ook qua thematieken is dit tweede boek veel schraler dan het eerste. Maar Coetzee compenseert dat door een plotse twist in het slothoofdstuk rond hoofdfiguur Simon, een draai die opnieuw onze schijnzekerheden op losse schroeven zet.
En zo kom ik weer bij mijn uitgangspunt: speelt Coetzee een spelletje met de lezer? Dat is niet denigrerend bedoeld. Het lijkt me dat hij bewust de lezer wil drukken op de grote portie mysterie die er in onze schijnbaar zo goed ingerichte wereld blijft heersen. Het is een thema dat trouwens in bijna al zijn romans aan bod komt, en dat hij hier misschien iets frivoler heeft uitgewerkt dan anders. Of nog: Coetzee illustreert perfect dat verhalen voor velerlei uitleg en interpretatie vatbaar zijn. Ik ben dus benieuwd of mijn these ook standhoudt in het derde en laatste deel dat net uit is, ‘de dood van Jezus’. ( )
1 vote bookomaniac | Nov 27, 2019 |
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From the Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, the haunting sequel to The Childhood of Jesus, continuing the journey of David, Simon, and Ines. "When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. There is no history. The boat docks at the harbour and we climb down the gangplank and we are plunged into the here and now. Time begins." David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simon and Ines take care of him in their new town, Estrella. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog Bolivar to watch over him. But he'll be seven soon and he should be at school. And so, with the guidance of the three sisters who own the farm where Simon and Ines work, David is enrolled in the Academy of Dance. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky. But it is here, too, that he will make troubling discoveries about what grown-ups are capable of. In this mesmerizing allegorical tale, Coetzee deftly grapples with the big questions of growing up, of what it means to be a parent, the constant battle between intellect and emotion, and how we choose to live our lives.

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