![]() ![]() He considers himself a scholar and only teaches because it helps him make a living. We learn that David has written three scholarly books, but now he wants to turn things around and write an opera about Byron.He's offering Romantic Poetry this semester. He used to be a Professor of Modern Languages (sort of like a literature professor), but they closed down that department, so now he is a professor of Communications. He's a professor at Cape Technical University, which used to be Cape Town University College. He's happy enough as far as he's concerned his sex life is okay his job is okay he is financially stable – "he lives within his income, within his temperament, within his emotional means" (1.2). The narrator tells us more about David's life: he sort of walks the middle ground. ![]() ![]() We learn that, every Thursday at 2pm, David visits a prostitute named Soraya and they do their thing.The narrator introduces us to David Lurie as a fifty-two-year-old divorced man who has "solved the problem of sex rather well." Subtle, right?. ![]()
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