![]() ![]() The story begins with David Lurie, a middle-aged divorcé who is a professor of Romantic poetry, getting involved in a disturbing affair with one of his students. ![]() ![]() The novel is a masterfully layered account of differing stories of people, both black and white, who are still struggling to deal with the reality of racial subjugation that had occurred in the past. Coetzee is a contested novel that addresses the echoes of racial tensions within the South African context. For this reason, I chose a text to discuss this week that speaks to the perils of polemic disputation.ĭisgrace by J. Maya Angelou once said, 'I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.’ While I certainly agree with the sentiment of the saying, I truly believe that in not forgetting how you felt, it leaves the window cracked open allowing for the dust to lie dormant, only until a gust of wind blows it into disarray. It makes me ponder the nature of conflict particularly conflicts that do not originate from acts of ill will but by matters of belief or aesthetics. The political and social climate in Egypt saddens me. ![]()
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