/lit/ - Literature

>>10003293
Coetzee gets a bad reputation from some for delving into a lot of post-colonial issues, but he's South Afrikaner, so that's a realm all too real for him. I didn't find him to be pandering to a liberal mindset or to the academy in any of the titles I've read of his.

Coetzee being referred to as staid is wrong though. The novel that I mentioned (In the Heart of the Country) and Disgrace have some pretty raw content and some extremely bold concepts and themes. I've thoroughly enjoyed everything I have read by him and nothing has felt tame, lighthearted, or unadventurous.

In the Heart of the Country reads like a horrible and beautiful fever dream where life and death are unclear and the reader is stuck in an uncomfortably humid haze in between.

>>9750111
That goes for you too Christina