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Grigoryeva K. A. J. M. Coetzee’s Boyhood as an Experiment in Autobiography. Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism, 2014, vol. 14, iss. 1, pp. 93-99. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18500/1817-7115-2014-14-1-93-99


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J. M. Coetzee’s Boyhood as an Experiment in Autobiography

The article deals with J. M. Coetzee’s Boyhood, focusing on the author’s experiments with the autobiography in the context of traditional genre conventions. Boyhood, the first part of Coetzee’s autobiographical trilogy, is analyzed as a deconstruction of the childhood autobiography (the absence of autobiographical agreement, third-person present tense narrative, a combination of multiple points of view: those of a child-protagonist and an adult author).

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