The Death of Jesus

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / General / Coetzee, J. M.
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch, Westgate Branch

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"First published in hardcover in Australia by The Text Publishing Compnay, Melbourne, in 2019" --title page verso.
"After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, the Nobel prize-winning author completes his haunting trilogy with a new masterwork, The Death of Jesus. In Estrella, David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old who is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father Simón and Bolívar the dog usually watch while his mother Inés now works in a fashion boutique. David still asks many questions, challenging his parents, and any authority figure in his life. In dancing class at the Academy of Music he dances as he chooses. He refuses to do sums and will not read any books except Don Quixote. One day Julio Fabricante, the director of a nearby orphanage, invites David and his friends to form a proper soccer team. David decides he will leave Simón and Inés to live with Julio, but before long he succumbs to a mysterious illness. In The Death of Jesus, J. M. Coetzee continues to explore the meaning of a world empty of memory but brimming with questions"-- Provided by publisher.

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Fitting End to the Series submitted by sestho on July 13, 2022, 11:03am With the name Jesus in the title of this trilogy, and the renown of the author, led me to check them out. I knew that they were somehow allegorical, but figuring out HOW it connected to the biblical Jesus story kept me reading -- I was intrigued both with the actual story Coetzee wrote, as well as trying to determine the relatedness.

This final book in the three was a fitting end. There were a particularly poignant reflective questions posed toward the end, as we see references to the boy's attitude regarding being given his actual name -- which is never revealed -- and existential questions regarding the nature of a life, and the David's life in particular. It was a fitting way to conclude what Coetzee set up in The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus. Well worth the read, though I don't recommend reading this one as a stand alone.