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Journal Article
The Politics of Shame and Redemption in J. M. Coetzee's \Disgrace\
2003
Overview
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Possessed1 In both J. M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel Disgrace (1999) and André Brink's The Rights of Desire (2000), a middle-aged or older male protagonist (Coetzee's David Lurie is 52; Brink's Ruben Olivier is 65) has what might be seen as a final fling (or, in David Lurie's Romantic version, \"a last leap of the flame of sense before it goes out\" - 27) via a relationship with a much younger woman - in both cases, a university student - and faces life-changing decisions about work, life, and ethics. (Doubling 392) This debate, too, is staged in Coetzee's Disgrace in a number of ways: within the consciousness of David Lurie himself as he comes to terms with his personal and public shame and finds a kind of \"grace\" at the novel's end; between David and his daughter, Lucy, in their different ways of dealing with her rape and what she calls \"the price of staying on\" (158); in the encounter between Melanie's God-fearing father and the nonbelieving David; and in the context of the wider sociopolitical conditions of a transitional South Africa where power is changing hands and the erstwhile possessors of that power, the white population, are having to adapt to survive.
