Smashing The Boundaries of Fiction and Non-Fiction in J M Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello

Abstract

Abstract

J M Coetzee, the 2003 Nobel Prize Winner is one of the most familiar and yet strange litterateur and critic of the modern times. This is so, because he has never separated the two tasks and has always criticized with his literature. He does not recognize the boundary between the realm of non-fiction that is criticism and the realm of fiction that is novel. Keywords: J.M.Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello, apartheid, South Africa. J M Coetzee has merged fiction and non-fiction into one and has developed an informed and at the same time emotional critique of the modern world and its inequalities, especially the relations between the colonizing and the colonized.