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“She says: The only interesting thing is to try and speak the language of another that you don’t understand”- J.F. Lyotard Postmodern Fables, 61.  Can we relate this to how Coetzee portrays his female characters (namely Lucy and Magda) and how … Continue reading →

As the abundance of the scholarship illustrates “Disgrace is a complex exploration of the collision between private public words; intellect and body; desire and love; and public disgrace or shame and the idea of individual grace or salvation…the refashioning of identities … Continue reading →

In The Lives of Animals Coetzee, through his fictional character Elizabeth Costello, poses an idea he references throughout a majority of novels, the problem and question of good and evil, of human nature and right vs wrong.  In ways that complicate … Continue reading →

In a previous course I viewed a film called ‘A Question of Silence’. To sum up the gist of the film three women, all appearing to be middle class average women, kill a shop owner.  Following his murder the ‘question … Continue reading →

In trying to find just one thing to discuss in Waiting For the Barbarians I found it quite difficult.  Coetzee once again offers a world full of imagery, language and description; a world where the concept of ‘civilized’ and uncivilized seem … Continue reading →

There were a variety of different elements that struck me within the text of Dusklands.  Coetzee’s ability to span between two different time periods, the 1970s and the 1760s, and  yet offer the same theme of pain between the oppressor … Continue reading →

J.M. Coetzee is an Nobel Peace Prize winning author from South Africa.  Though the majority of his works may be set outside of South Africa one of the major themes in his novels are the racial and social issues placed … Continue reading →