Abstract
Youth' relates to a young man who has left South Africa after having finished his studies to live in London. According to him, he can reveal himself as a poet, as an artist, he can only get rid of his bleak appearance by leaving his native country. He expects a lot from London where his destiny might have a lot to offer him. Throughout the novel, we get acquainted with the main character and all the paradoxes within his personality, the opposition of what he sees as his true self and his appearance, and at the same time, a violent self-depreciation, and the rejection of his origins.
