Why did J. M. Coetzee decide to publish his latest novel in Spanish before making it available in English?
All three “Jesus” novels were translated into Spanish, though only the third came out in Spanish translation first. They take place in a somewhat abstracted netherworld to which its characters seem to have emigrated from forgotten previous lives. One of these immigrants, a young boy named Davíd—the apparent Christ figure of the title—learns to read the language from a children’s edition of “,” whose story he goes on to preach as a kind of gospel.
In “El Polaco,” the difficulties Witold and Beatriz experience in establishing and maintaining their relationship owe in part to their using a common language of convenience: neither has a perfect command of English, let alone an organic cultural connection to it. Their ostensibly shared language becomes a barrier to intimacy—ultimately an insurmountable one. Even as he writes in English, Coetzee is culturally and intellectually well placed to critique it in this way.
The result is global English but one without the imprecision and solecism implied by that label.
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