The article I read today, Mike Marais's "The Possibility of Ethical Action: JM Coetzee's Disgrace," only superficially addresses the Booker Prize-winning novel. Despite its title and Marais's lament that "[w]hile the novel has been widely discussed, nothing much has been said about it," the essay is more of a theoretical treatise on the other than an analysis of Coetzee's novel. Still, since Marais is an important Coetzee scholar and the author of many texts central to the critical discussion surrounding his fiction, researchers may find this brief essay to be a useful supplementary reading when approaching the ever-expanding body of Coetzee criticism.

Labels: Disgrace, Dissertation, literary criticism, Mike Marais, scrutiny2

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From Minxy:

Interesting...an author fretting about how no one really says much of anything about a novel while not saying much of anything about that novel. That's a puzzler indeed. But you managed to muddle your way through it so YAY!!!! :)

By  Sobriquet Magazine on 01 July, 2008
 
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