Disgrace Resources
Articles & Reviews
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Written by Andrew O'Hehir
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Read a brief bio of the author on the Nobel Foundation's website. (Coetzee won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.)
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Daphne Merkin reviews Disgrace for The New Yorker, November 15, 1999. (Note: you can only get the first page of the review without a subscription, but it's still pretty informative.)
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The Guardian names Disgrace as the best British, Irish, or Commonwealth novel to be written between 1980 and 2005 (October 8, 2006).
Movie & TV Productions
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This adaptation stars John Malkovich as David and Jessica Haines as Lucy.
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An article on the film adaptation in the Sydney Morning Herald, August 16, 2008.
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In his blog for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert names Disgrace as one of the best films of 2009.
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David Denby reviews the film adaptation of Disgrace for The New Yorker, September 21, 2009.
Historical Documents
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Video
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J.M. Coetzee gives a lecture upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. He uses the novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe as a guiding metaphor for his lecture. You might be interested to know that he rewrote Robinson Crusoe from the perspective of a woman in his 1986 novel, Foe.
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Preview the 2008 film adaptation of Disgrace.
Images
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Resources on Apartheid
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Short introduction to Apartheid from Stanford University.
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A collection of resources from the BBC on racial segregation in South Africa.
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A racial map of South Africa during Apartheid.