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Disgrace takes as its complex central character 52-year-old English professor David Lurie whose preoccupation with Romantic poetry--and romancing his students--threatens to turn him into a "a moral dinosaur". Called to account by the University for a passionate but brief affair with a student who is ambivalent about his embraces, David refuses to apologise, drawing on poetry before what he regards as political correctness in his claim that his "case rests on the rights of desire." Seeking refuge with his quietly progressive daughter Lucie on her isolated small holding, David finds that the violent dilemmas of the new South Africa are inescapable when the tentative emotional truce between errant father and daughter is ripped apart by a traumatic event that forces Lucie to an appalling disgrace. Pitching the moral code of political correctness against the values of Romantic poetry in its evocation of personal relationships, this novel is skillful--almost cunning--in its exploration of David

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Disgrace
• Author: J M Coetzee
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780099289524
• ISBN: 0099289520
• ID: 04015884
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 162 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 131 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. April 2000

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