![]() ![]() He goes out into the South African countryside and lives for a while with his grown daughter, who is farming and taking care of dogs. He refuses to apologize in the terms his academic colleagues require and is let go. It’s about a literature professor named David Lurie who gets fired from his job for abusing, molesting, having sex with (what are the right words here?) a young student of his. ![]() It’s set in the South Africa of the 1990s, just after the end of apartheid. This book is the celebrated novel Disgrace (1999) by the Nobel laureate J. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2003), now resides in Australia. But if you were a white South African of any feeling and intelligence, during apartheid, how could such an idea elude you? South African novelist J. ![]() I have no idea whether the author started with a theme in mind, or not, a pronouncement on an idea that was worming its way into his consciousness. Moving along from the discussion of Feb 6, “Theme,” I’d like to suggest possible themes of a novel I’ve reread lately. ![]()
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