Some of "our themes' in another Coetzee

[Mark Kohut]

Slow Man, 2005:

AtD echo:
Protagonist's nurse, a Catholic from Croatia now in Australia, has a daughter named Ljubica.

AtD echo:
Of a much-earlier 20th century photograph of an impoverished family standing in front of their shack: "frightened, frozen, like oxen at the portal of a slaughterhouse."

TMoP echo:
"he [protagonist] seems to be on the brink of one of his bad spells again.......he prefers not to think they come from inside him and are his, part of him.