Original - anglais
Disgrace
John Maxwell Coetzee Afrique du Sud
Écrit en 1999

Résumé ou extrait

A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities, he is expected to apologise and repent in an effort to save his job, but he refuses to become a scapegoat in what he see as as a show trial designed to reinforce a stringent political correctness. He preempts the authorities and leaves his job, and the city, to spend time with his grown-up lesbian daughter on her remote farm. Things between them are strained - there is much from the past they need to reconcile - and the situation becomes critical when they are the victims of a brutal and horrifying attack. In spectacularly powerful and lucid prose, Coetzee uses all his formidable skills to engage with a post-apartheid culture in unexpected and revealing ways. This examination into the sexual and politcal lawlines of modern South Africa as it tries desperately to start a fresh page in its history is chilling, uncompromising and unforgettable.

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Édition

2011 Royaume Uni

Random House 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road
GB-SW1V 2SA Londres
Royaume Uni
http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/

ISBN : 0099563126

Auteur

John Maxwell Coetzee

Afrique du Sud
 
Traduction
français
France
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