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‘Dusklands’ and ‘Disgrace’ address the complicity of writers in events that are too easily dismissed as beyond their capacity to influence.
The fiction of J.M. Coetzee is always formally daring, brave in its social critique and its refusal to play by the rules.
The fiction of J.M. Coetzee is always formally daring, brave in its social critique and its refusal to play by the rules.
At the end, you will question what you have seen, and how your own unconscious prejudices affect how it made you feel, and you will talk to others and find you have very different ideas...
The Book of the Courtier, and The Life of Lazrillo De Tormes, all but the last of which were among the assigned reading for Comp. Lit. 22 with Professor Trafton. Digression: Leon Black, who endowed the chair in Shakespearean Studies that Professor Crewe held, was one of my best friends at Dartmouth. I lived with him and three other Dartmouth seniors during our last quarter before graduation. We all knew Leon was going to be successful. Leon spent his senior year working on a dissertation exploring the theme of the mask in European art and literature. In the spring of 1973 I attended Leon’s...