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A House in Spain single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 A House in Spain
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    y separately published work icon Three Stories J. M. Coetzee , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2014 7721999 2014 selected work short story

    'As he gets older he finds himself growing more and more crabby about language, about slack usage, falling standards. Falling in love, for instance. 'We fell in love with the house', friends of his say. How can you fall in love with a house when the house cannot love you back, he wants to reply? Once you start falling in love with objects, what will be left of real love, love as it used to be? But no one seems to care. People fall in love with tapestries, with old cars.

    'A man contemplates his deep connection to a house.

    'The unfathomable idea of threshing wheat points to a life lost.

    'And a writer ponders the creation of his narrator.' (Publication summary)

    Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2014
    pg. 1-22
Subjects:
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    Spain,
    c
    Western Europe, Europe,
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