Books
by J M Coetzee
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Disgrace |
Compellingly written, grisly and sometimes brutal, this story of a literary academic concerns human frailty and rejection as much as disgrace. Seeking refuge through bleak affairs, his relationship with his daughter and working with unwanted animals, some of the most lyrical writing describes his dreams to write an opera about Byron. Coetzee paints a terrifying picture of the shift of power in S. Africa. This book provoked more discussion at our book-club than any so far.
(Jenny Freeman - bwl 4 July 2000) |
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Elizabeth Costello |
Elizabeth Costello is a famous, elderly Australian writer whose life has become a series of conferences throughout the world. But she's become a bore! She compares the killings of the animals we eat with the holocaust, for example. Definitely not a good book, a disappointment by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
(Laurence Martin Euler - bwl 28 February 2005) |
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