Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (Book Analysis) E-Book

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• Sprache: Englisch

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee. The novel follows the university professor David Lurie, who goes to live with his daughter Lucy on her smallholding after he is unceremoniously dismissed from his teaching post for seducing a student. There, he gets a glimpse of the new South Africa that has emerged following the end of apartheid and experiences a brutal attack that permanently alters his relationship with his daughter and his outlook on the world. Disgrace won the Man Booker Prize in 1999, making Coetzee the first writer to receive the award twice (following his 1983 win with Life and Times of Michael K). 

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J. M. COETZEE

SOUTH AFRICAN-BORN NOVELIST

Born in Cape Town in 1940.Notable works:Life and Times of Michael K (1983), novelSummertime (2009), novelThe Schooldays of Jesus (2016), novel

John Maxwell Coetzee grew up in Cape Town and completed his Bachelor degree in English and mathematics at the University of Cape Town. He was later a Fulbright scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was awarded a PhD in English. From 1968 to 1971, Coetzee was employed by the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1971, he returned to South Africa and taught at the University of Cape Town until his retirement in 2002. He subsequently immigrated to Australia and became a citizen of the country in 2006. Coetzee was the first novelist to win the Booker Prize twice, first for Life and Times of Michael K (1983) and then for Disgrace (1999). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.

DISGRACE

NOVEL

Genre: novelReference edition: Coetzee, J. M. (1999) Disgrace. London: Secker & Warburg.1stedition: 1999Themes: crime, seduction, parent-child relationship, South Africa, animals

Coetzee was awarded the 1999 Booker Prize for Disgrace