Disgrace
(J. M. Coetzee)
David Lurie, tired and demotivated Cape Town university lecturer,
starts a relationship with one of his female students that ends up with
a charge for sexual harassment. Forced to leave the university, he
takes refuge with his daughter Lucy who lives alone in an area torn
apart by violent ethnic and cultural conflicts. Here he carries out the
more humble jobs, cultivating the fields and helping a vet that
practises euthanasia on sick dogs, in an attempt at the regeneration
and reconquest of himself, which, despite the great difficulty of
adaptation, seems to be successful.
But at a certain point, the violence that strikes at his daughter
and her firm and mature reaction, force him to take account of his
inadequacy and of his substantial incomprehension of the new era his
country has just begun to live.
Published in 1999, winner of the Booker prize, the most prestigious
prize for British literature, Disgrace has sanctioned its author as one
of the greater living writers of the English language: The spasmodic
attention to the often dramatic game of feelings never disjoins from
the unbiased observation of the changes currently taking place in
post-apartheid South Africa, of the difficult integration of deeply
different races and ethnic groups, of the import of extraneous
cultural models to the difficult but deep-rooted traditions of the
territory. But above all it is the power with which it describes the
landscape and the human environment to leave us with an indelible sign
inside, opening to us with great effect the doors of a world largely
unknown.
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