When you read J.M Coetzee, in quite many works (here we take into consideration Disgrace and Summertime ) what hits or blows you is dolour, suffering that ultimately generates also physical pain. The characters of these books are prisoners of themselves, prisoners of the place where they live and belong to: South Africa. His dolour seems to spring from the reason of being a white person who does not find the right way of living because is living in an inappropriate place where to live. The story of Disgrace is the best example, where David Lurie and his daughter Lucy have to bend their personalities to the disquieting's will of Petrus, a native that used to be the assistant on the farm of Lucy, which/who also through the complicity of three criminals who rape Lucy and brutalize David he (Petrus) will slowly take possession of. In Summertime , where the main character, Coetzee himself, recollects his life through a fictitious biographer, who is writing a biography of Coetzee by ...
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