La infancia de Jesus / The Childhood of Jesus

J. M. Coetzee

La infancia de Jesus / The Childhood of Jesus
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Debolsillo
Country
Spain
Published
3 September 2014
Pages
272
ISBN
9788490622360

La infancia de Jesus / The Childhood of Jesus

J. M. Coetzee

Tras cruzar el oceano, un hombre y un nino llegan a un nuevo pais donde se les asigna nombre y edad, y se les anima a olvidar su pasado. Extranos en una tierra extrana, aprenden espanol, el idioma del lugar, mientras aguardan a ser trasladados a la ciudad de Novilla, donde tienen la esperanza de encontrar a la madre del nino. Ya con sus nuevos nombres, Simon y David llegan al centro de reubicacion de la ciudad. Alli, el funcionariado los trata con educacion, pero no son muy serviciales. Tras mucha confusion, Simon consigue un alojamiento para ambos, y encuentra un trabajo en el puerto. Las tareas de estibador le resultan tremendamente agotadoras, pero enseguida se gana el aprecio de sus companeros, que durante los descansos mantienen dialogos filosoficos sobre la dignidad del trabajo. En este pais nadie parece particularmente feliz o infeliz. Todos cumplen sus funciones, pero no van mas alla y no parecen esperar ni querer mas de lo que tienen. En medio de la extraneza que le produce esta actitud, Simon decide retomar la mision de encontrar a la madre del nino, con una dificultad anadida: todos los que llegan al nuevo pais parecen haber dejado atras sus recuerdos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The Good Story is a fascinating dialogue about psychotherapy and the art of storytelling between a writer with a long-standing interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with training in literary studies. Coetzee and Kurtz consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both of their approaches is a concern with narrative. Working alone, the writer is in control of the story he or she tells. The therapist, on the other hand, collaborates with the patient in developing an account of the patient’s life and identity that is both meaningful and true. In a meeting of minds that is illuminating and thought-provoking, the authors discuss both individual psychology and the psychology of the group: the school classroom, gangs and the settler nation, in which the brutal deeds of ancestors are accommodated into a national story. Drawing on great writers like Cervantes and Dostoevsky and psychoanalysts like Freud and Melanie Klein, Coetzee and Kurtz explore the human capacity for self-examination, our wish to tell our own life stories and the resistances we encounter along the way.

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