" The Globe Salon is the setting for one of this novel's early scenes, a rehearsal of the play Sunset, in which a main character pushes a broom across the stage and tangles it in an electric cord to create "a more Marx Brothers atmosphere.
One character in this novel complains to the protagonist after getting pregnant that "you are the main character, I am a minor character who doesn't make an appearance until halfway through." The protagonist of this book appears beneath an "inverted wastepaper basket" in a newspaper photo captioned with the text "Who's the Dunce Now?" The Globe Salon is the setting for one of this novel's early scenes, a rehearsal of the play Sunset, in which a main character pushes a broom across the stage and tangles it in an electric cord to create "a more Marx Brothers atmosphere." This novel's protagonist plans to write an operatic work about Lord Byron's final days in Italy, but is embarrassed to find himself lecturing about Byron's theory that a being "with a mad heart" is "condemned to solitude." In this novel's second portion, its protagonist lives with his daughter Lucy, who sells flowers and is assisted by her farmhand Petrus. For 10 points, Melanie Isaacs leads Professor David Lurie to the title state in what novel by J. M. Coetzee?
One character in this novel complains to the protagonist after getting pregnant that "you are the main character, I am a minor character who doesn't make an appearance until halfway through.
Disgrace