Disgrace
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From the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. "Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it." —The New Yorker At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. When an affair with a student leaves him jobless, shunned by friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife, he retreats to his daughter Lucy's smallholding. David's visit becomes an extended stay as he attempts to find meaning in his one remaining relationship. Instead, an incident of unimaginable terror and violence forces father and daughter to confront their strained relationship and the equallity complicated racial complexities of the new South Africa.
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well written, but woof did i hate the protag. i hated the middle, did not understand lucy's motivations, and the end.
[little bit of spoilers but not really tbh no worries you're not missing out]
listen. i can find thought-provoking themes in this book. it's not badly written. there's a lot going on sub textually when it comes to culture and racism and misogyny. but i cannot get over the fact that this main character is one of the least sympathetic people ever. i'm not even trying to be dramatic but nothing he did or thought in this entire book made me like him even a teeny tiny bit. he was a creepy, 50-year-old rapist who got turned on by the fact that his student's hips were “narrow as those of a 12-year-old's” and literally said that he did not value women who did not try to look good for men. honestly go die in a fire. safe to say it did not make this a pleasant read. the most awful thing might be that this guy is a personification of probably a fuckload of real men walking around every day.
i'm sort of curious what our lectures will have to say about it. i'm more than ready to go fume about it with my english lit group. bring it on.
