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| Original Title: | Disgrace |
| ISBN: | 0143036378 (ISBN13: 9780143036371) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | David Lurie, Lucy Lurie, Petrus, Bev Shaw, Melanie Isaacs |
| Setting: | South Africa Cape Town(South Africa) |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize (1999), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1999), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (2000), The Best of the Booker Nominee (2008), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2001) |
J.M. Coetzee
Paperback | Pages: 220 pages Rating: 3.84 | 79370 Users | 5819 Reviews
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| Title | : | Disgrace |
| Author | : | J.M. Coetzee |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 220 pages |
| Published | : | August 30th 2005 by Penguin Books (first published 1999) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Southern Africa. South Africa. Literature. Novels |
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Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee’s searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a twice divorced, 52-year-old professor of communications and Romantic Poetry at Cape Technical University. Lurie believes he has created a comfortable, if somewhat passionless, life for himself. He lives within his financial and emotional means. Though his position at the university has been reduced, he teaches his classes dutifully; and while age has diminished his attractiveness, weekly visits to a prostitute satisfy his sexual needs. He considers himself happy. However, when Lurie seduces one of his students, he sets in motion a chain of events that will shatter his complacency and leave him utterly disgraced.Rating Out Of Books Disgrace
Ratings: 3.84 From 79370 Users | 5819 ReviewsArticle Out Of Books Disgrace
There should be one of those button options on GR that states this review has been hidden due to hormonal, maybe not so justified, incoherent rants click here to viewBecause thats what youre about to get. David Lurie is a playah. In the full urban dictionary sense of the word. A male who is skilled at manipulating ("playing") others, and especially at seducing women by pretending to care about them, when in reality they are only interested in sex.A certain class of low-rent, slack-jawed fuckupsThis book made me want to read Twilight. Yes, Twilight: perfectly perfect young people falling in love and never growing old. God, I hope thats whats in store for me there. I need an antidote to Disgrace. It affected me more than I thought it could, in ways I hadnt imagined possible. At page ten I would have readily given it five stars; the writing is superb. Halfway through Id have given it four. Excellent, but slightly annoying. At the moment I finished it, shouting WHAT?? What the hell
I don't think if someone described the plot of this book to me I would think that this is a book that I would enjoy yet here we are. I'm not sure how to even explain what about this book appeals to me. I think it's that the writing felt really wonderful and every word felt meaningful and right. I can't stand overly verbose prose and nothing about this felt this way. I think I also just really enjoy flawed characters, and David, the main character, clearly has his flaws. I just enjoyed the
This could have been the most uncomfortable Ive ever felt while reading a novel. The issues and themes addressed are those that are immersed in the sensitive, pitch-black parts of my insides. And it didnt relent; not once did it get easier. It was painful to keep going, yet I was gripped and couldnt stop.Mining through our darker spirits is not pleasurable. Looking at the world and its sickness, and feeling some of its constant, inherent pain is no easier. But when these merge together, a
This short novel, written in spare, economical prose, tells the story of a not particularly likable middle-aged Capetown college instructor who falls into "disgrace" because of an affair with a student and is soon reduced to living with his daughter in the bush and working as a euthanizer at the local animal shelter. A violent incident occurs, and "disgrace" takes on another meaning. The novel is both merciless and compassionate (not an easy combination to achieve), and is also incisive in its
It's 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.At the beginning, it appears pretty easy: - To hate David Lurie.- To take Coetzees writing for granted.- To assume that everything would fall in its right or may be wrong place.- To anticipate a letdown feeling by just another Booker prize
David Lurie, 52, professor, seduces a student. Not rape, we are told, not quite that, but undesired nevertheless. The girl's name, Melanie, means black. The power dynamic between them, the disparity of authority, is foregrounded.Later, Lurie's daughter is raped by intruders, and violently. She is white; her assailants three of them are black. We are in South Africa.~~~~David is forced out of his position at the university for his undesired liaison. An investigating committee asks him to issue
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