![]() ![]() When Melanie and her father lodge a complaint against him, Lurie is brought before an academic committee where he admits he is guilty of all the charges but refuses to express any repentance for his acts. Lurie pursues his relationship with the young Melanie-whom he describes as having hips “as slim as a twelve-year-old’s”-obsessively and narcissistical ly, ignoring, on one occasion, her wish not to have sex. But when Lurie seduces one of his students, he sets in motion a chain of events that will shatter his complacency and leave him utterly disgraced. Though his position at the university has been reduced, he teaches his classes dutifully and while age has diminished his attractiveness, weekly visits to a prostitute satisfy his sexual needs. He lives within his financial and emotional means. Lurie believes he has created a comfortable, if somewhat passionless, life for himself. Coetzee’s searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a twice divorced, 52-year-old professor of communications and Romantic Poetry at Cape Technical University. ![]()
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