John Maxwell Coetzee is a well-known writer born in South Africa and living in Australia. He has twice become a Booker Prize laureate and received the Nobel Prize in Literature. He avoids publicity, rarely gives interviews, and his work remains a mystery. His "autobiographical" trilogy "Scenes from the Life of a Provincial" is a candid description of his life, creating a unique stereoscopic effect. The translation of this trilogy was prepared by a well-known interpreter of literature and is being published for the first time.