NP - Disgrace

[Bekah]

The thing is that Coetzee is an animal rights activist.   It's the  
treatment of the animals as well as the humans that is the Disgrace.

From:  http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1219-11.htm
As a clear-eyed chronicler of the terrible costs and tawdriness of  
apartheid, colonialism, war, and the breakdown of human relationships,  
Coetzee does not see the world through rose-tinted lenses. And nor  
should we. Reading Coetzee offers us the opportunity to be honest  
about the costs to our humanity of the casual cruelty we visit on  
other animals; what we fear we will lose if we stop abusing them; and  
what abundance and fellow feeling - and pain, too - we deny ourselves  
by choosing not to see.

Bekah


On Sep 18, 2009, at 7:27 PM, John Bailey wrote:

> I saw this twice in the cinema, taking my girlfriend along the second
> time. She (ardent dog lover) called it the saddest film she's ever
> seen. I'd say the respect Coetzee affords dogs (without
> anthropomorphising 'em) is a very rare thing indeed.
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:31 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> One thing you can say about Coetzee:  dogs don't fare very well in  
>> his books.  I'm too emotionally obsessed with my own dog ( a mutt  
>> called Strelka) to be able to stand reading about abused dogs.   
>> Pynchon likes dogs, and, so far as I know, has never described one  
>> coming to harm (though we worry about the ones in Pointsman's lab).
>>
>> Laura
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>> Sent: Sep 18, 2009 9:22 AM
>>> To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>> Subject: NP - "Discrace" the movie
>>>
>>> “Disgrace,” a faithful, compelling screen adaptation of J. M.
>>> Coetzee’s Booker Prize-winning 1999 novel
>>>
>>> http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/movies/18disgrace.html?ref=arts
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>

http://web.mac.com/bekker2/