Disgrace by Coetzee, is is a highly emotional, effectively, and almost poetically written novel about scandal, and a struggle between two cultures, forced to coexist in an ethnic melting pot.
Here are a few quotes which meant the most to me from this book: (please pay attention to the beauty of the sentence fluency and word choice)
-" My case rests on the rights of desire', he says. 'On the God who makes even the small birds quiver." ( Coetzee, 89)
- " I was a servant of Eros:'that is what he wanted to say, but does he have the effrontery? It was a god who acted through me. What Vanity! Yet not a lie, not entirely. In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing the best to flower. If only he had known the time would be short!" ( Coetzee, 89)
-" He does not reply. The day is not dead yet but living. War, Atrocity- every word with which one tries to wrap up this day, the day swallows down its black throat" ( Coetzee, 102)
Style:
The Style in which this book was written, although very modern, did not seem so. It was full of Latin and Old English. The almost poetic flow of words through every synonym used to better describe an intangible feeling, and personification to give life to an otherwise monotonous setting.
