Disgrace

Perverted, dirty and perverted, I thought when reading the first four chapters. The book starts out with a man laying in bed with other women not having the cleanest of thoughts.
But there is a sadness that speaks through it. An incapability of doing better. I read on, a bit reluctantly. As I wasn't very keen on reading someone's perverted thought for 210 pages long.

But the air changes. The professor David Lurie is filed a complaint against because of getting intimate with one of his students. He goes his daughter in the countryside to .. do something else. There is no real reason to his going. It is just his going there that tells the story.

This book as so many other books is about redemption. A man lost in his own ways is looking for a way out. He sees his daughter and thinks what a bad guide he has been for this world. He sees himself and wonders if all the poets, that have been his guide, have been such a good guide.

It's good. Sad, granted. But good.