John Maxwell Coetzee was born in South Africa in 1940. He has published novels, literary memoirs and several parts of his autobiography, portraying a life that represents the concerns of 20th and 21st century people. His work has been marked by the ethnic conflict caused by the segregationist policy of apartheid. Far from being anecdotal, this enables a category to form, which becomes a symbol of the relationships of power and other forms of inequality and domination around the world.
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