Coetzee on Claus

[franceslievens]

I always thought his poems hermetic, unpenetrable blocks of obscurity. His use of the language that I should, after all, have mastered, left me puzzled. No, I never was a fan of Hugo Claus, but I should blame my 16-year-old self for that. And I always thought his greatness was a fable. JM coetzee prooves me wrong. I do think he read it all in translation, though.

Via Maud Newton.