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J. M. Coetzee · 1999
A novel following a fifty-two-year-old divorced professor in Cape Town whose ordered life of casual encounters and academic detachment is disrupted when his carefully compartmentalized existence begins to unravel. Coetzee's prose is precise and introspective, exploring themes of desire, aging, and moral compromise.
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What this book knows
Desire pursued without conscience becomes disgrace, and disgrace demands a reckoning the self can barely survive.
erotic-as-power
For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well.
DJ-RC-001She does not own herself; perhaps he does not own himself either. He is in the grip of something.
DJ-RC-011Do you think a young girl finds any pleasure in going to bed with a man of that age? Do you think she finds it good?
DJ-RC-027shame
Because of the disgrace. Because of the shame. That is what their visitors have achieved; that is what they have done.
DJ-RC-071I am a grown man. Not a child. I can answer for myself.
DJ-RC-030trauma-and-survival
It happens every day, every hour, every minute, in every quarter of the country. Count yourself lucky to have escaped with your life.
DJ-RC-060Illuminates
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