I have read every book by JM Coetzee, I am a huge fan, and met him once, when he signed a copy of The Master of Petersburg.

it was a huge loss for our country when he decided to emigrate a year or two ago.

Why do you ask?

AH

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“The subject no longer has to be mentioned by name. Someone is sick. Someone else is feeling better now. A friend has just gone back into the hospital. Another has died. The unspoken name, of course, is AIDS.”
“From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.”

that tells me a lot. he is very good, indeed. is his depictions real that he tells in his stories?

Well, it is important to remember that he is a wrtier of fiction. So nope, not everything can be read from real life in his books, but a lot of it is.

If one reads his books writern during apartheid, and his books post-apartheid, one gets avery good idea who he is.

Disgrace is not my favourite book of his, in all honesty, as I truly think he paints a more bleak picture than realy exists, but again, thati s any writers right.

But thake the basis - that a university has been devolved into a college, that has not happend in SA, little things like that.

But i understand what he is tryingto reach, and it is something I do agree with, but that has nothing to do with thisthread, but you are more than welcome to start a new thread, or pm me, if you want to continue this descussion.

AH

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“The subject no longer has to be mentioned by name. Someone is sick. Someone else is feeling better now. A friend has just gone back into the hospital. Another has died. The unspoken name, of course, is AIDS.”
“From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.”

really? i disagree. at the end, lurie is shown as having a rebirth stage. one where he comes to terms with reality and is given a new chance at life. of course, i don't live there so the circumstances are different. however, the rape is a pretty awful scene.

do you have dogs? i want to get watch dogs. it would be so cool to send a dog out to scare whoever you don't like. new orleans has a ton of those.

I have two very nice rats, they do scare people, but I do not think in the way you mean!!

Used to ahve dogs, but live in an apartment now, so no dogs. And I do not like the scary wanna bite everyone types anyhow. Golden retrievers and Stafodshire Bullterriers are my breed.

I m off to bed, but we will talk more about Disgrace and and Coetzee later.

Just a final note, remeber that the new tyranny, and the fact that changes of regime does not necesarilly lead to changes in peoples lives, are very important themes in Disgrace, and one of the issues I feel his picture is a bit too bleak.

AH

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“The subject no longer has to be mentioned by name. Someone is sick. Someone else is feeling better now. A friend has just gone back into the hospital. Another has died. The unspoken name, of course, is AIDS.”
“From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.”

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