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Disgrace jm coetzee themes7/4/2023 The words apply as much to himself as to anyone. I’m amused by the fact that he, a professor of language, begins the affair that causes his public fall from grace by quoting Shakespeare’s first sonnet. He claims to have lost ‘the lyrical’ within himself, but it’s doubtful he ever had it. Then there’s the sharp intelligence with too little empathy or emotion to make it truly sing. Beauty does not own itself.”), but I don’t have to live with him. He’s a Lothario and possibly worse ( “She does not own herself. David Lurie is entering the disgrace of growing old. The main character, David Lurie, is disgraced. I have been a disgrace, been disgraced, disgraced myself and others. If you stay Coetzee will turn that word, disgrace, in your mind a hundred different ways. So good you might be tempted to revel in it. It’s not outrageously blatant, but it’s none too subtle either. There’s no escaping what he wants you to see. The word disgrace is what struck me with nearly every page. A little distance was needed before I could consider it rationally again. At the moment I finished it, shouting “WHAT? What the hell kind of ending is THAT?” and wondering if I was going into shock, I’d have demanded stars back for ruining my life. At page ten I would have readily given it five stars the writing is superb. It affected me more than I thought it could, in ways I hadn’t imagined possible. God, I hope that’s what’s in store for me there. Yes, Twilight: perfectly perfect young people falling in love and never growing old.
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