LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHAEL K by J.M. Coetzee
Viking; 184 pages; $13.95
In previous novels (In the Heart of the Country, Waiting for the Barbarians), J.M. Coetzee turned his apocalyptic eye on his native South Africa. The subjects of his booksrace war, state violence and personal vengeancehad a distinctive local color. Now the Afrikaner author goes straight to the center of mankind's lust for self-destruction. The scene of Life and Times of Michael K is only incidentally South Africa. The subject is terminal civil war; the time is the end of the world....
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