![]() ![]() ![]() Somehow or other David translated anything and everything to dance. David is the strong-willed child who-in defiance or excess of Simon’s logic-holds his idiosyncratic convictions about mathematics, astronomy, the relationship between truth and fiction, and, above all, dance. Simon often speaks in the name of reason, even if his voice has a sentimental edge to it, which he often indulges. ![]() In The Death of Jesus, Simon, guardian of young David-the remarkable, graceful boy to whom the book’s title alludes-frantically attempts to salvage some of his ward’s legacy as he tries to find the message or meaning that David decided not to share with him. By focusing on the messianic, then, Coetzee can put this thesis-perhaps the central concern of his work-to the test. The magistrate in Waiting for the Barbarians, David Lurie in Disgrace, and the figure of Coetzee himself in his autobiographical fiction all these figures are in possession of an emasculated truth. It is not surprising that this author would eventually write a great work on this theme, as his books often bring out a truth that does not redeem. THE DEATH OF JESUS presumably concludes J. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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