This paper is about ‘re-writing’ of J. M. Coetzee, a white South-African writer. His novels almost were what are re-written through the great novels past. A fundamental theme in Coetzee's novels involves the values and conduct resulting from South...
This paper is about ‘re-writing’ of J. M. Coetzee, a white South-African writer. His novels almost were what are re-written through the great novels past. A fundamental theme in Coetzee's novels involves the values and conduct resulting from South Africa's apartheid system, which, in his view, could arise anywhere.
And his novels are also well-crafted composition, pregnant dialogue and analytical brilliance of Mr. Coetzee's novels. But at the same time, they are said to be ‘a scrupulous doubter, ruthless in his criticism of the cruel rationalism and cosmetic morality of Western civilization.’
Besides it is in exploring weakness and defeat that Coetzee captures the divine spark in man. The main point of his novels turns an existentialist spotlight on individual behavior. At the decisive moment Coetzee's characters stand behind themselves, who are motionless, and incapable of taking part in their own actions.
But the passivity is not merely the dark haze that devours personality; it is also the last resort open to human beings as they defy an oppressive order by rendering themselves inaccessible to its intentions.
As it shows in this complexity of his novels, his re-writing works are the trying of crossing in the border between ‘Colonialism’ and ‘Postcolonialism’, ‘Modernism’ and ‘Postmodernism’ and ‘here’ and ‘there’. Through that, his novels of anti-realism also tell us the real stories and situations of South-Africa.