The Schooldays of Jesus

In “The School Days of Jesus,” the story focuses on a boy, David, who is getting ready for school. He learns how to communicate with other people and searches for his place in the world. The author shows the problems of growing up: what it means to be human, what you need to protect yourself from, and what is more important—reason or feelings? But Kутзее’s novel is not a parenting manual—he encodes an entire world in everyday situations. A world in which a savior must appear.

Only, from whom—or from what—does he need to be saved?