All Writing Is Autobiography: J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing by David Attwell & The Good Story by J. M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz --- Jason DeYoung | Numéro Cinq
What is surprising in The Good Story is Coetzee’s near preoccupation with some form of absolute truth. He seeks from Kurtz an understanding of the point of therapy, asking whether truth is the only way to “heal” a patient or would some “empowering fiction” make the patient feel good enough to carry on in the
