Disgrace
A Fiction, Novels, Literature book. Do you think what happened here was an exam: if you come through, you...
A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities, he is expected to apologise and repent in an effort to save his job, but he refuses to become a scapegoat in what he see as as a show trial designed to reinforce a stringent political correctness. He preempts the authorities and leaves his job, and the city, to spend time with his grown-up lesbian daughter on her remote farm. Things between them are strained - there is much from the past they need to reconcile - and the situation becomes critical when...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 220 pages
- ISBN: 9780670887316 / 670887315
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Do you think what happened here was an exam: if you come through, you get a diploma and safe conduct into the future, or a sign to paint on the door-lintel that will make the plague pass you by? J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace // When all else fails, philosophize. J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace // Its admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat. J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace //
Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences. J.M. Coetzee, DisgraceWhen all else fails, philosophize. J.M. Coetzee, DisgraceWow, folded into 220 pages is about everything you've ever wanted (or never wanted) to read about race, sex, power, family shame, suffering, humiliation, jus animalium, love and death. Really.... Brace yourself to meet Professor David Lurie, banished son of the Romantic Poets, he roves and loves, spreading his unfertile seed unapologetically.Byronic in his burning desire to possess female bodies, he doesnt crave for their souls, it is the release of the flesh, the ecstasy of the unloved that he is after.Fifty-two year old David... 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 of the unformed young; and art seeks...
