Сцены из жизни провинциала. Отрочество. Молодость. Летнее время

Dzhon Maksvell Kutzee rodilsi͡a v I͡Uzhnoĭ Afrike, rabotal v Anglii i SShA, zhivet v Avstralii. Dvazhdy laureat Bukera i laureat Nobelevskoĭ premii po literature, on ne i͡avilsi͡a ni na odnu t͡seremonii͡u vruchenii͡a, pochti ne daet intervʹi͡u i zhivet, mozhno skazatʹ, zatvornikom. O svoem tvorchestve on govorit redko, a o sebe samom - prakticheski nikogda. Tem unikalʹnee "avtobiograficheskai͡a" trilogii͡a "St͡seny iz zhizni provint͡siala", polnai͡a ėpizodov shokirui͡ushcheĭ otkrovennosti, - "pered chitatelem skladyvaetsi͡a podrobneĭshiĭ, bez prikras, mozaichnyĭ portret tvort͡sa, stremi͡ashchegosi͡a tolʹko k tomu, chego dostichʹ nelegko. Daleko ne vse fakty sovpadai͡ut s tem, chto my znaem o biografii realʹnogo Kutzee, no tem interesnee voznikai͡ushchiĭ stereoėffekt" (The Seattle Times). Ot detstva v i͡uzhnoafrikanskoĭ glubinke, cherez i͡unostʹ v keĭptaunskom universitete i kholodnom Londone k "letnemu vremeni" zrelosti - my vidim Kutzee (ili "Kutzee") tak blizko, kak ne videli nikogda: "avtoportret beskompromissno ispovedalʹnyĭ i v to zhe vremi͡a zamyslovato zybkiĭ" (The New York Review of Books). Trilogii͡a vykhodit v perevode Sergei͡a Ilʹina (1948-2017) - znamenitogo interpretatora proizvedeniĭ Vladimira Nabokova i Dzhozefa Khellera, T. Kh. Uaĭta i Mervina Pika, Stivena Frai͡a, Misheli͡a Feĭbera i mnogikh drugikh sovremennykh klassikov. Perevod byl podgotovlen eshche v 2011 godu, no publikuetsi͡a vpervye.

John Maxwell Coetzee was born in South Africa, worked in England and the USA, and lives in Australia. A two-time Booker Prize winner and Nobel Prize winner in Literature, he did not attend any award ceremonies, hardly gives interviews and lives, one might say, a recluse. He rarely talks about his work, but almost never about himself. All the more unique is the "autobiographical" trilogy "Scenes from the life of a provincial", full of episodes of shocking frankness — "the reader sees a detailed, unadorned mosaic portrait of the creator, striving only for what is not easy to achieve. Not all the facts coincide with what we know about the biography of the real Coetzee, but the emerging stereo effect is all the more interesting" (The Seattle Times). From childhood in the South African countryside, through adolescence at Cape Town University and cold London to the "summer time" of adulthood, we see Coetzee (or "Coetzee") as close as you've ever seen it: "a self-portrait uncompromisingly confessional and at the same time intricately shaky" (The New York Review of Books). The trilogy is published in translation by Sergei Ilyin (1948-2017), the famous interpreter of the works of Vladimir Nabokov and Joseph Heller, T. H. White and Mervyn Peak, Stephen Fry, Michel Faber and many other modern classics. The translation was prepared back in 2011, but it is being published for the first time.