Disgrace
Disgrâce is a novel of John Maxwell Coetzee, published in English in 1999 and translated into French in 2001. Disgrâce is a literary masterpiece which received the prestigious Booker Prize in 1999 and made much for obtaining the Nobel Prize of literature by JM Coetzee in 2003.
Synopsis
He tells the history of David Lurie, professor with the Université of the Cape in South Africa, twice divorced, which has an adventure with one of its coeds, Melanie Issacs. That has been suddenly known and David passes quickly before a disciplinary commission. Without same awaiting the judgment, David decides to leave all that it has to take refuge in his daughter, Lucy.The latter lives in a farm with her associate, Petrus. David takes part in the life of the farm while dealing with the dogs collected, by making the markets… He is quickly an occupation while working with BEV Shaw, a friend of Lucy which looks after the wounded animals and euthanasia the desperate cases. Unfortunately, David and his daughter will be confronted with the horrors of the daily life in contemporary South Africa: rape, violence…
Analyzes
This very dark novel describes with a terrifying coldness the aud-African company post-apartheid, in which no justice exists, leaving room to horrors in any kind, under cover of an impotent government. The author uses very few descriptions, it sticks primarily to the characters, their relations, their actions and their states of heart.Disgrâce is the last novel of Coetzee before its departure for Australia.
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