Disgrace
Disgrace is a novel by J. M. Coetzee, published in 1999. It won the Booker Prize. The writer was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature four years after its publication.
I really liked the narration in this book. I'm kind of tired of first-person, and the third-person limited omniscience of the narrator supplemented to the story. Only being privy to protagonist David's thoughts make the thoughts and motives of the secondary characters a mystery. The narrator is also very self-aware at how David isn't a good person, he isn't supposed to be. There were actually a lot of plot points that I had some speculations about, some questions and conflicts I thought would be fleshed out or resolved, but they never were. While this isn't a bad thing I lowkey resented Coetzee from taking away the super justifying feeling of being right. Also without giving any spoilers at all this book also ended at a different point than I expected it to end. I was 2 pages away thinking "shit how is this ending
so soon?" But overall I was satisfied after thinking about it and the conclusion was apt.
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Guest 2 years ago
Spoiler alert.Did Lucy give birth to a girl or a boy？Who was the father? How did the relationship between Petrus and Lucy turn out? How did David’s opera go? How did Malanie’s career go? There were so many questions that were not solved, so many things with no ends. Then with
'Are you giving him up?'
'Yes, I am giving him up.'
The story ended. I didn’t expect the end to come so quick and so sudden. What is this story about? Disgrace? Whose disgrace? David’s disgrace of being dismissed from the university after he had had an affair with his student? Lucy’s disgrace of being raped by three men yet being not able to bring the three criminals to justice? Maybe both, I don’t know. Lucy is a character whose way of thinking and actions was a puzzle to me; she was raped by three black men, yet she chose not to tell the police that; she was impregnated by them, yet she chose not to do anything about it. David asked her to leave the farm, the scene of crime, to put everything behind her, but she wouldn’t leave. What was she thinking? Making some sort of sacrifice of herself for the whole humanity’s progress? I have no idea. And David as well, he didn’t have to lose his position at the university, yet he wouldn’t try, it was like he was also making some sort of sacrifice of himself to prove the righteousness of his passion or sexual desire. But look how it turned out, dismissed, be given the cold shoulder, an unfinished opera that probably would be stillborn.
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Guest 7 years ago
This is a good book... I'm on chapter seven and it has been an excellent time consumer but it is an amazing book!!!Write Review:
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