This is an edited extract from Geoff Dyer's Meet the Author session at Adelaide Writers' Week, chaired by J.M. Coetzee. Go to www.slowtv.com.au for the full video of this session.
He didn't laugh because it wasn't that funny. Coietzee is not swayed by the consensus, when Coetzee doesn't find a joke funny, he finds no reason to lol.
I don't actually understand the joke myself, but while Coetzee is not howling in mirth, it looks as though he is grinning politely.
bookoflists 1 month ago
He didn't laugh because it wasn't that funny. Coietzee is not swayed by the consensus, when Coetzee doesn't find a joke funny, he finds no reason to lol.
shamshlam 4 months ago
0 people sticking up for Coetzee. Disgrace.
wingtakanawa 9 months ago
It's the reaction shot that makes it. You can't draw it up any better than that.
gdusenbury326 9 months ago
I love Coetzee, but this is hilarious :)
simpelesoul 1 year ago
@TheTyaptyap Period! I agree!
pankajsaksena1984 1 year ago
@pankajsaksena1984 when you win a nobel prize for writing you are no longer oblitgated to smile at anyone. Its in the contract.
TheTyaptyap 1 year ago 2
Has anyone ever seen this man even smiling? Coetzee, I meant. Is he as miserable as his characters? He must be living in a constant hell!
pankajsaksena1984 1 year ago
hilarious
simpelesoul 1 year ago
@mosessauce ive heard he rarely ever is XD
zmz786 1 year ago