Scenes from the life of a provincial. Adolescence. Youth. Summer time. Kutzey J.M.

John Maxwell Kutzey was born in South Africa, worked in England and the USA, lives in Australia. Twice the laureate of Boker and the Nobel Laureate of Literature, he did not appear at any presentation ceremony, almost does not give interviews and lives, might say, a recluse. He rarely speaks of his work, and almost never about himself. The more unique the “autobiographical” trilogy of the “scenes from the life of the provincial”, full of episodes of shocking frankness - “The reader develops a detailed, without embellishment, the mosaic portrait of the Creator, striving only for what is not easy to achieve. Not all facts coincide with what we know about the biography of the real Kutzea, but the more interesting stereo effect ”(The Seattle Times).

From childhood in the South African outback, through youth at the University of Cape Town and cold London to the “Summer Time” of maturity - we see Kutzey (or Kutzey ”) as close as we have never seen:“ The self -portrait of the uncompromisingly confessional and confessional and confessional At the same time, it is intricate as a shaky ”(The New York Review of Books). The trilogy is translated by Sergey Ilyin (1948–2017) - the famous interpreter of works by Vladimir Nabokov and Joseph Heller, T. H. White and Mervin Pic, Stephen Fraye, Michel Faiber and many other modern classics.