A boy named David

In December 2012, J.M. Coetzee published an article on Gerald Murnane in the New York Review of Books. The reading Coetzee offers tells us that Coetzee sees things in Murnane that concern him, in every sense of the word concern. Indeed, it is possible to claim that Coetzee’s essay offers a preface to a dialogue played out in Coetzee’s most recent novel, The Childhood of Jesus