Coetzee a RACIST???????

According to the New York Times article, South Africa is referring to Coetzee’s novel Disgrace as being a racist novel. This article is basically describing Coetzee as being a racist, and that is the reason why he has moved from South Africa to Australia. He felt the country didn’t want him there due to the fact that his stories do not involve enough black people. I don’t feel that Coetzee is coming off as a racist. The novel Disgrace seems to be more about rape, acceptance, and yes maybe, towards the end of the story, racism. In a way I am still not sure if what happened to Lucy and David is in fact due to racism, but that is the way most people do view this.

I feel that people might be right in calling Coetzee’s book racist, due to what happens within the story. As for his other novels being racist, I would have no idea what to say about that, because I have never read any other novel of his, in that case, I would not be able to say.

The author’s responsibility when it comes to the views he brings forth in their text, would be to fight these views or at least confront the press about the situation. I feel that Coetzee did wrong by not confronting the press and just ignoring them, because it just goes to show that the press and everyone else’s speculations are true, about how the people view his novels as being racist, or view Coetzee himself as being racist.