Everything has a price. If you're a university professor getting involved with a student who later reports you, you pay the price: you're dismissed and your life is turned upside down.If you're a young white woman and choose not to leave the ground you were born on (i.e. South Africa), you pay the p...
I got so much from this slim volume - on middle age, of sex, of racism, of fatherhood/daughterhood. It made me empathic, angry, sentimental.I must read this again.
Disgrace is a beautifully written, emotionally blunt novel that maps, in shadows and scars, the complicated cultural geography of contemporary Cape Town. In Disgrace the decadence of Western privilege overlays the body of rural Africa; the useless academic hopes to shape and tame the simple thoughts...
This is a phenomenal tale of an arrogant South African English Professor who has one affair too many, taking advantage of one of his students. He is booted out of the university after refusing to defend himself. In disgrace he goes to live with his daughter, who is living as a sort of farmer in a ru...
A scarily disturbing story set in South Africa. I read this as a university set work and I'm very glad that I did, otherwise I might not have had the stomach to finish it. Brialliant, but not for the faint hearted
I picked this up reluctantly, thinking how little I know/knew about South Africa, and if the book was about South Africa it was surely going to be about politics, which is not a favorite topic. But three pages into the book, I was stunned by the prose – how clean, how straight and purposeful. How ve...
BkC 18) Coetzee, J.M., [DISGRACE]: Wonderful writing, is there a story here?I think I must have been in a foul humor when I wrote that. There is indeed a story here.About disgrace, about the taking of grace from another being, about the horrors of which grace, in its religious meaning, is capable of...
College professor has affair with student. Resigns. Goes to live with daughter. He and his daughter are attacked by three men; she is raped and he is set on fire. The daughter becomes pregnant and the father begins to help in the animal clinic. Thoughtful yet not preachy.
...And, on second thought..."I re-read this book last night and am still trying to sort out my feelings. At the level of writing, J.M. Coetzee is brilliant, his prose both spare and evocative.But what to do with David Lurie? Coetzee humanizes this man and even invites us to empathize. Yet, does Luri...
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