Disgrace david lurie6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Have done with it.'”Ĭoetzee’s language is stark. I’m old-fashioned, I would prefer simply to be put up against a wall and shot. Recantation, self-criticism, public apology. A panel, convened to decide his future, requires him to show contrition, but Lurie refuses. ![]() He is ageing and his affairs take on a greater significance. He has seduced her, as he has other students in the past, but not as effortlessly. He is fired from his job as a university professor when a student makes a complaint against him. The wheel has turned and its not only changing attitudes to race Lurie must contend with. Post-apartheid South Africa is a very different place. David Lurie, the novel’s main character is being swept aside by social change. He draws it beautifully, tragically and without pity in his novel, Disgrace. Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your handĪnd J.M Coetzee knows it too. ![]() Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command Dylan knew it:Ĭome mothers and fathers throughout the landĪnd don’t criticise what you can’t understand If we live long enough, we will wonder too. The wheel will turn and future humans will look back and wonder what we were thinking. Decision-makers and their decisions may not stand the test of time. Those with great power will only hold it briefly. The world as we know it will change profoundly, even in our own lifetimes. It’s awful to think it, but it’s true, truer than most things. ![]()
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