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Disgrace
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Wow.
This book is guaranteed to make you feel something, and not in the way you'd think. You definitely won't become David Lurie's new best friend, even if you have a certain respect for his staunch sense of principle. But the way Coetzee writes is guaranteed to make you examine (or re-examine, as the case may be) your feelings, thoughts, opinions on at least one of the several issues covered in this book.
I'd read Coetzee's Foe and really enjoyed it, so I thought I'd try another. Just as good, but the impact is tenfold, gut-wrenching at some moments. And yes, I want to be able to re-write the last two paragraphs. Because resignation is such a sad, sad thing, especially when an ounce of redemption is so close.
As I found Foe, so I find this: lyrical, so short and accessible that you'll devour it quickly. But you won't digest it quickly. It will stay with you for a long, long time.
This book is guaranteed to make you feel something, and not in the way you'd think. You definitely won't become David Lurie's new best friend, even if you have a certain respect for his staunch sense of principle. But the way Coetzee writes is guaranteed to make you examine (or re-examine, as the case may be) your feelings, thoughts, opinions on at least one of the several issues covered in this book.
I'd read Coetzee's Foe and really enjoyed it, so I thought I'd try another. Just as good, but the impact is tenfold, gut-wrenching at some moments. And yes, I want to be able to re-write the last two paragraphs. Because resignation is such a sad, sad thing, especially when an ounce of redemption is so close.
As I found Foe, so I find this: lyrical, so short and accessible that you'll devour it quickly. But you won't digest it quickly. It will stay with you for a long, long time.
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Sep 19, 2014 07:50AM
Too many sad dog moments :(
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Oh, no kidding!And beyond that, giving up on yourself as "hopeless" and not capable of any kind of change or redemptio....most depressing.
I dunno, I think I lean less toward the emotional than some in the sense that I grew up out in the country, in a family where we went up north every fall to my grandmother's trailer, fed the baby deer who wandered into the yard from bottles, just so that my brothers and father could shoot them 4 years down the road. In some sense, the "circle of life" or the knowledge of where my food comes from has always been with me (an uncle who was a pig farmer, for example).
What was harder for good ol' liberal me was the aftermath of changes in government. I've gotten closer to a friend from book club lately (he's from South Africa), and I really didn't have any idea of exactly how dangerous it can be. More feelings of hopelessness, I guess, and the awareness that it's easy for the rest of the world to be as liberal as we want to be, because it doesn't affect us so far away, while those who are on that side of the pond may be liberal, but it's "shoot first, ask questions later". I'm still weighing it all and thinking about it.
Si me la recomiendas me la apunto! No la tenía en mi lista ;)
Me alegro! Te aviso que es una novela que se lee fäcilmente, y es corta (como las otras del autor que conozco) pero super serio. Le he preguntaod a un amigo del club de libros de Boston, que es de Sur África, si así es la cosa...desafortunadamente, después de que se lo presté, me ha dicho que sí, así es.
Linda wrote: "Me alegro! Te aviso que es una novela que se lee fäcilmente, y es corta (como las otras del autor que conozco) pero super serio. Le he preguntaod a un amigo del club de libros de Boston, que es de..."Me lo imaginaba. Vaya...
Hay libros que son muy duros pero la realidad a veces es así. Seguro que es un gran libro.
Sölo le pongo 5 a un libro cuando tengo la intención y el deseo de volver a leerlo. Y éste sé que lo volveré a leer...acabo de regalarle una copia a mi sobrina para la Navidad.
