Sink like a Stone: Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
The opening chapters of Disgrace infuriated me. There, our protagonist David Lurie, 52, was demoted from his tenured professorship in Classics and Modern Languages as the department closed and is now adjunct professor of Communications at Cape Technical University in Cape Town. While the novel is set in the late 90’s South Africa post-apartheid, its…
