Regret the Error

An essay on Dec. 16 about J. M. Coetzee misspelled the given name of the cultural critic who once referred to him as “the Greta Garbo of South African literature.” He is Shaun de Waal, not Sean. The essay also referred incorrectly to the student with whom the protagonist of Coetzee’s novel “Disgrace” was involved in a sexual harassment scandal. The novel doesn’t specify her race; she is never described as “colored.” The religion to which T. S. Eliot, whom Coetzee discussed in a 1991 essay, became a convert was also misstated. It was Anglicanism, not Catholicism. Link