Salvation in South Africa.

DISGRACE (Book : Coetzee); COETZEE, J. M., 1940-; ANARCHISM; POLITICAL correctness; POST-apartheid era; RACE relations

The article discusses the book "Disgrace," by J.M. Coetzee. The politics this time are postapartheid, new order of political correctness and at first a somewhat predictably sketched wasteland popular culture. But from the city the story moves to the situation in the countryside, anarchy largely unpoliced,land and power changing hands, the racial majority finding itself. Propelled like tragedy or melodrama at times, the narrative is a slow progress toward a different life. The meaning of this progress is everyday yet mysterious ambiguous as the book's title, whose irony may be signaled by its presence in tiny black print at the center of the dust jacket's white expanse.