J.M. Coetze. Disgrace. 1999.

Nowhere near as good as Waiting for the Barbarians

Count the problems with the following passage:

Menstruation, childbirth, violation and its aftermath: blood-matters; a woman's burden, women's preserve.

Not for the first time, he wonders whether women would not be happier living in communities of women, accepting visits from men only when they choose. Perhaps he is wrong to think of Lucy as homosexual. Perhaps she simply prefers female company. Or perhaps that is all lesbians are: women who have no need of men.

No wonder they are so vehement against rape, she and Helen. Rape, god of chaos and mixture, violator of seclusions. Raping a lesbian worse than raping a virgin: more of a blow. (104-105)

1-2: the author is making a statement about how his narrator is a pretentious idiot

3-4: pick up the Booker Prizes you never collected, and send them to Ismail Kadare.

5-20: and give your Nobel Prize to Marie Redonnet