{"id":10861,"date":"2016-07-29T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hilbertthm90.wordpress.com\/?p=5510"},"modified":"2022-06-21T12:29:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:29:25","slug":"examining-pros-prose-part-11-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/2016\/07\/examining-pros-prose-part-11-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Examining J. M. Coetzee’s Prose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Today we’re going to look at the prose of J. M. Coetzee. He is a South African writer and is known for his controversial topics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
His 1980 work Waiting for the Barbarians<\/a><\/em> is about a town magistrate that takes on disturbing power by preying on the fears of the people about an incumbent attack by the barbarians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This novel is now seen as an eerie and accurate premonition of the events in the U.S. after 9\/11 that led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the forfeit of our freedoms in the name of safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The novel I actually want to look at is his more recent 1999 novel Disgrace<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n