Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

October 24, 2004

Disgrace by Nobel Prize Winner and leading South African novelist, J.M. Coetzee, confronts us with an unfamiliar post-apartheid world in which terrible ethical and political conflicts arise. It is a wonderfully written book that cannot but involve us in significant dialogue having to do with tensions between and within different cultures.

"I am not a herald of community or anything else. I am someone who has intimations of freedom (as every chained prisoner has) and constructs representations of people slipping their chains and turning their faces to the light."
–J.M. Coetzee

Portrait of J.M. Coetzee by photograph Mariusz Kubik

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