Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

June 27, 2007 2:07 AM

I am just getting around to reading Coetzee for the first time. Sat down with this novel at lunch, and read half of it in one go. It’s slim, don’t worry, but it’s also got a subterranean pull that made it almost impossible to put aside. How often do you find literature like that? Not often enough, that’s for sure.
Coetzee draws you into the life of a middle aged college professor, a lonely divorcee who loves women and begins making a series of fatefully bad decisions involving them. I’ll leave it that. Someone blurbed the book likening Coetzee to Camus. I scoffed. That’s still a pretty tall order, but even after a couple of chapters you know you are in that realm.

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Waiting for the Barbarians has the same subterranean pull and deals with the larger issues of politics and oppression. Not irrelevant to China.

Posted by: Peter Morgan Author Profile Page at January 17, 2008 10:09 AM

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