TMoP, Chap 16, The Printing Press: the (inevitable) complicity of the writer

[Mark Kohut]

More Nechaev...we learn that N.'s father betrays him for money...(showing
the truth of D.'s/ Russia's/ Coetzee's (?) insights into the nature of generational [revolutionary] conflict....why N. would want to go beyond
father-son.

D. asks to see her breasts...

But, culmination of this chapter: the writer will be used by the movement
NO MATTER what he writes/says.....even if he says nothing!

Coetzee puts his own judgment of his--any writer's---predicament into this chapter.