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Course Description

Nobel Prize laureate and two-time Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee has taken the Socratic trend in his fiction to a new frontier in The Childhood of Jesus (2013) and The Schooldays of Jesus (2016). Described by The Daily Telegraph as “an ascetic author who finds a way of denying you everything you want while somehow giving you what you need,” Coetzee is not telling a story about Jesus but about a man and a boy in search for answers to the eternal philosophical questions that each century, each generation, and each individual in quest for self-understanding needs to consider anew.

Course Outline

For our first class, please read Chapters 1-6 of The Childhood of Jesus.

Notes

Book List

J. M. Coetzee. The Childhood of Jesus. Penguin Books (2014). ISBN-13: 978-0143125761

J. M. Coetzee. The Schooldays of Jesus. Penguin Books (2018). ISBN-13: 978-0735222670

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