Disgrace
内容简介
Disgrace--set in post--apartheid Cape Town and on a remote farm in the Eastern Cape--is deft, lean, quiet, and brutal. A heartbreaking novel about a man and his daughter, Disgrace is a portrait of the new South Africa that is ultimately about grace and love.
At fifty--two Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire but lacking passion. An affair with one of his students leaves him jobless and friendless, except for his daughter, Lucy, who works her smallholding with her neighbor, Petrus, an African farmer now on the way to a modest prosperity. David's attempts to relate to Lucy, and to a society with new racial complexities, are disrupted by an afternoon of violence that changes him and his daughter in ways he could never have foreseen. In this wry, visceral, yet strangely tender novel, Coetzee once again tells "truths [that] cut to the bone" (The New York Time Book Review).
A finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Awards
Coetzee is the only writer to have been awarded the Booker Prize twice
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作者简介
J.M. 库切：
南非著名小说家，被评论界认为是当代南非最重要的作家之一。曾两度获得布克奖，并于2003年获得诺贝尔文学奖。1940年出生于南非开普敦，现居澳大利亚。
冯涛：
英语文学翻译家。译有奥斯丁、萨基、E.M.福斯特、毛姆、海明威、斯坦贝克、田纳西•威廉斯、杜鲁门•卡波蒂、约翰·契弗、库切、麦克尤恩、石黑一雄等著名作家代表作品二十余种，四百余万字。
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读书文摘
让他感到惊讶的是，一星期里一个女人九十分钟的陪伴就足以让他感到快乐，而他原本还以为自己需要一个妻子、一个家和一个婚姻。结果他发现自己的需求原来非常轻薄，轻薄而又短暂，就像蝴蝶的需求一样。没有澎湃的激情，或者说只有那最深沉的、最难以猜测的情感：一种心满意足的基础低音，就像使城里人渐渐睡去的嗡嗡的车声，或者让乡下人沉入安眠的夜晚的寂静。
说到男人和性，什么都不会让我感到惊奇了。对男人来说，仇恨也许使性更加令人兴奋。你是男人，你应当知道。当你和一个陌生的女人发生性关系的时候——当你把她骗上床，把她放倒，把她压在自己身体下面，把自己全身重量压在她身上的时候，那是不是有点像杀人？把刀插进去，事后一阵兴奋，走开了，听任她浑身是血——这难道不像在杀人？不像是杀人后逃离现场？
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