Desgracia by J. M. Coetzee
An aging university lecturer in post‑apartheid South Africa pursues an ill‑advised sexual relationship with a student and is dismissed from his post, forcing him to confront his own moral blindness and sense of entitlement. He retreats to his daughter's isolated farm, where a brutal attack on her forces both of them to reckon with changing social power dynamics, questions of justice, and personal responsibility. As he struggles with humiliation, impotence and a yearning for atonement, he slowly learns difficult, ambiguous lessons about compassion, vulnerability and the limits of redemption.
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- Published
- 1999
- Nationality
- South African
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 200-240 pages
- Original Language
- English
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