![]() Later, when she stops attending his class as a result, he falsifies her grades. His "disgrace" comes when he seduces one of his more vulnerable students, a girl named Melanie Isaacs, grooming her with alcohol and other actions that arguably amount to rape. He then seduces a secretary at his university, only to completely ignore her afterwards. Before the sexual affair that will ruin him, he becomes attached to a prostitute and attempts to have a romantic relationship with her (despite her having a family), which she rebuffs. Lurie's sexual activities are all inherently risky. He is twice-divorced and dissatisfied with his job as a 'communications' lecturer, teaching a class in romantic literature at a technical university in Cape Town in post- apartheid South Africa. ![]() ![]() ![]() The writer was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature four years after its publication.ĭavid Lurie is a white South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect his own daughter. ![]()
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