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Coetzee's acceptance speech for the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature was delivered in the form a short story titled 'He and His Man'. It was delivered at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on 7 December 2004, and subsequently published as an essay.
'The story features Robinson Crusoe, long after his return from the island, reflecting on death and spectacle, writing and allegory, solitude and sociability, as he searches his mind for some true understanding of the "man" who writes of and for him.'
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Epigraph: But to return to my new companion. I was greatly delighted with him, and made it my business to teach him everything that was proper to make him useful, handy, and helpful; but especially to make him speak, and understand me when I spoke; and he was the aptest scholar there ever was. -- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
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