J. M. Coetzee's writing style is rather dry and bleak, but otherwise quite evocative. At the beginning, the protagonist David Lurie seems self-absorbed and almost hedonistic. It seems as though he foolishly courted Melanie Isaacs just because he could no longer have Soraya the call-girl. How repelling does that sound?
However, David Lurie eventually sounds more sympathetic once we see how university faculty and students harass and condemn him so vehemently. Doesn't the students' behavior seem very exaggerated? But then again, they probably felt threatened by the way David forced himself on Melanie. Coetzee's writing style serves to make the story even bleaker. The lines are short and choppy, as if it is not a story but a short movie, a 'court-metrage'. It would be somewhat excessive to continue condemning him even when he is assaulted and his daughter is raped.
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