Business Continues: Ten Novels and the Speed of Harm
Violence converted into procedure across ten novels, from a Brazilian slaughterhouse to a predator whose vocabulary outlives him.
A disciplined archive of reading and reflection
Moral judgement is staged through authority, law and the limits of responsibility.
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Violence converted into procedure across ten novels, from a Brazilian slaughterhouse to a predator whose vocabulary outlives him.
Violence as fact, not allegory. J. M. Coetzee forces the reader to sit with it.