A EXPERIÊNCIA EM ÁFRICA PARA AS LÍNGUAS DE HELDER E COETZEE

Abstract

The present essay focuses on the relationship that the Portuguese writer Herbert Helder and the South African J.M. Coetzee establish with language considering their experiences in Africa. By comparing works of these two authors, the objective is to understand how the practices and facts arising from their living in Africa affect their writing, in Helder’s case, his method of translation, in Coetzee’s, the status of indiscernibility and impropriety that language takes in his work.