>>25221976I read Waiting For The Barbarians and was not wildly impressed. Not a terrible writer, but at heart he's just another liberal wringing his hands over the wickedness of white people.
>>25221976Disgrace is great. Dont care for his other work
>>25221986>but at heart he's just another liberal wringing his hands over the wickedness of white people.So he's based, I see I see.
>>25221986Read Disgrace. It's about how evil niggers are
>>25221986Another vote for Disgrace. The movie is also good.
>>25221986Disgrace is great. First time I read I couldn't tell if it was a conservative novel or a liberal novel. Second time I read it was clearly a liberal novel but it still puts forth uncomfortable arguments and impossible situations.
>>25221976This
I hate how fucking passive all his characters are. Every single book is just about a guy who witnesses or experiences bad things happening in and does nothing about it. Infuriating.
>>25223063Most directionbrained post of the year award
>>25223148It's clearly a political book taking a stance on something, but being deliberately opaque about it and I went into it knowing nothing about Coetzee or his personal politics.
>>25223174I feel like liberal and conservative aren’t the only choices and are a quite American division. The book reminded me of Houellebecq a lot with its meditations on the post-Christian West and male sexuality
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>>25223293You can swap out whatever terminology applies in S. Africa, but I think Coetzee very much had an opinion both on David's behavior and Lucy's decision, even if he refrained from telling us how to think.
