A feminist response to Coetzee's masterwork Disgrace, and the
moving story of a woman trying to put her life back together Lucie
Lurie is the victim of an act of terrible sexual violence, a gang
rape at her father's farmhouse in the Western Cape. In the grip of
debilitating PTSD, she becomes obsessed with JM Coetzee, author of
the celebrated Disgrace, a novel based on the attack she suffered.
Withdrawn and fearful of crowds, Lucy nonetheless makes occasional
forays into the world of men in her search for Coetzee himself. She
means to confront him. The character in his novel is passive and
almost entirely lacking agency. The real Lucy means to right the
record, for she is the lacuna that Coetzee left in his novel the
missing piece of the puzzle. She plans to put herself back in the
story, to assert her agency and identity. For Lucy Lurie will be no
man's lacuna. "You are concerned for my sake, which I appreciate,
you think you understand, but finally you don't. Because you
can't." LUCY LAURIE IN COETZEE'S DISGRACE
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