Disgrace | Social Concerns
Disgrace centers on David Lurie, a man well established in life and profession who discovers that all comforts can disappear in a very short amount of time. Lurie is an academic, a professor at a university in Cape Town, South Africa. During the course of the story, Lurie undergoes significant change. His university has recently been modified in both name and structure; it is no longer Cape Town University College, but Cape Town Technical University, and his department, formerly Classics and Modern Languages, has been completely dissolved, leaving him with only a couple of classes...
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