![]() Summertime welcomes multiplicity, self-reflexivity and an interdependent relationship between fact and fiction. ![]() Leigh Gilmore’s “autobiographics” will be applied to Coetzee’s third autobiographical volume to investigate the author’s construction of the Self. Coetzee, aware of his status as public figure and accomplished writer defamiliarizes fiction and autobiography by allowing five interviewees to reflect on the late fictional John Coetzee as a distant, awkward human with no distinction as writer, lover, teacher or friend. Coetzee continues to state in an interview that all writing is autobiographical: “everything that you write, including criticism and fiction, writes you as you write it” (Atwell 117). Coetzee, an extreme postmodern self-consciousness of writing the Self emerges. ![]() In Summertime by the South African Nobel Prize-winning novelist, J.M. ![]()
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