Youth
Editorial ARROW BOOKS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher ARROW BOOKS
- ISBN13 9780099433620
- ISBN10 0099433621
- Type BOOK
- Pages 169
- Published 2003
- Language English
- Bookbinding Rustic
Subjects
English LiteratureYouth
Editorial ARROW BOOKS
Mainland Spain
Book details
"The narrator of Youth, a student in the South Africa of the 1950s, has long been plotting an escape from his native country: from the stifling love of his mother, from a father whose failures haunt him, and from what he is sure is impending revolution. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world, wherever that may be, he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art." Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Instead he succumbs to the monotony of life as a computer programmer, from which random, loveless affairs offer no relief. Devoid of inspiration, he stops writing. An awkward colonial, a constitutional outsider, he begins a dark pilgrimage in which he is continually tested and continually found wanting.