text: In a novel by this author, the narrator compares his difficulty in relating the story to his inability to perform in bed.
full_question: In a novel by this author, the narrator compares his difficulty in relating the story to his inability to perform in bed. In that novel, whose title is taken from a Constantine Cavafy poem, Colonel Joll leads the Third Bureau against the title people. In another of this author's novels, the protagonist believes that he has "solved the problem of sex rather well" through sleeping with the prostitute Soraya. That protagonist of this author's novel is an English professor who is fired from his job after his affair with his student Melanie Isaacs is discovered. For 10 points, name this creator of David Lurie, the South African author of Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace.
first_sentence: In a novel by this author, the narrator compares his difficulty in relating the story to his inability to perform in bed.
raw_answer: John Maxwell Coetzee