![]() ![]() ![]() He engages in a series of affairs, none of them fulfilling to him in the slightest. He feels alienated from the natives and never settles down, always aware of the scorn they see him with. ![]() He seeks refuge in the Third Programme and cinema, falling in love with Monica Vitti. However he finds none of this and instead, takes up a tedious job as a computer programmer working for IBM his work including checking punched cards submitted to an IBM 7090 for the TSR-2 project. After graduating in mathematics and English and in the wake of the Sharpeville massacre he moves to London in the hope of finding inspiration of becoming a poet and finding the woman of his dreams. The story begins with the narrator living in Mowbray and studying at the University of Cape Town. Coetzee, recounting his struggles in 1960s London after fleeing the political unrest of Cape Town. Youth (or Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II) (2002) is a semi-fictionalised autobiographical novel by J. ![]()
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