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Coetzee 's Use of Humor in Disgrace (1999

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Coetzee 's Use of Humor in Disgrace (1999

After reading Coetzee 's novel (1999 ) and then the literary criticisms that followed its publication , the inevitable conclusion was that the many different interpretations of the novel demonstrated it reached readers in highly individual ways . Indeed , it seemed that many of the criticisms were of different books . The purpose of this was to focus on an aspect of the novel that has received little attention

br Coetzee 's liberal use of humor or satire in the context of city life in post-Apartheid South Africa during the late 1990s from the viewpoint of the main character , David Lurie in the first section of the novel

Lurie taught at Cape Technical University , previously Cape Town University College . Because of low student enrollment , the Department of Classics and Modern Languages had been closed and Lurie had been assigned to teach courses in Communications Skills and a single course a year of his own choice in an area of his specialization , Romantic Poetry . When Lurie , 52-years-old at the time of the novel , had been younger , his impressive physical appearance had allowed him to attract women of his choice with little effort . Attracting women had become more difficult as he aged , and became even more difficult when Apartheid ended and many of its victims , who obviously did not idolize white male scholars ' became university students and then faculty . The views...