the phenomenology of "living reading"

on the part of Coetzee:

"Living reading, on the other hand, strikes me as a mysterious affair. It involves finding one's way into the voice that speaks from the page, the voice of the Other, and inhabiting that voice, so that you speak to yourself ( your self) from outside your self. The process is thus a dialogue of sorts. though an interior one. The art of the writer, an art that is nowhere to be studied though it can be picked up, lies in creating a shape ( a phantasm capable of speech), and an entry point that will allow the reader to inhabit the phantasm.

(Analogous to the the dialogue between the reader and the reader's fiction of the writer, in living reading, is the dialogue between the writer and the writer's fiction of the reader that belongs to the experience of writing. That is to say, someone, some phantasm of the reader, is spoken to and speaks back at the words go down on the page.) "

J.M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz,, The Good Story, p.179. Viking, 2015.