Your stay in the camp was merely an allegory, if you know that word. It was an allegory--speaking at the highest level--of how scandalously, how outrageously a meaning can take up residence in a system without becoming a term in it.
J. M. CoetzeeAbout author
- Author's profession: Author, Writer
- Nationality: south african
- Born: February 9, 1940
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