UTOPIA – CHRISTIAN, SECULAR OR ESTHETIC? COETZEE’S NOVELS THE CHILDHOOD OF JESUS AND SCHOOLDAYS OF JESUS

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Ilha Desterro

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2021-04

RESUMO

Abstract This article addresses, in its first part, the many critics who have difficulty in making sense of Coetzee’s two novels The Childhood of Jesus and Schooldays of Jesus, offering clues for an understanding of Coetzee’s utopian thought experiment within the framework of secularized utopian and Christian ideals. The second part links the utopian elements with esthetic and esoteric conceptions in the history of art (Johann Sebastian Bach, archaic cultures, and the revival of neo-mysticism among artists of the 20th century), proposing an understanding of their implications (or their obsoleteness) in contemporary art.

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