John Maxwell Coetzee
… professor from Cape Town University in January 2002, a post he held since 1984. Coetzee is the only author ever to … country, and Disgrace, a searingly frank appraisal of the post-apartheid social order, which uses a sparser, simpler … a pervasive question in his work: Is it possible to evade history? To do so he employs the character of a discredited …