The essays included in this volume offer a range of critical perspectives on J.M. Coetzee's fictional works. As a novelist J.M. Coetzee is difficult to classify and perhaps the only contemporary author who has generated diverse critical responses on his works. As an author J.M. Coetzee brings to his work a unique combination of intellectual power, stylistic poise, historical vision, and ethical penetration. Theoretically informed and a master of enigmatic writing V in his works has problematised issues of "writing", "authority", "power", "race", "patriarchy", "gender", "marginality", "voice" among others including "authorial identity" in unimaginable ways. using a disembodied language with the sharpness and precision of a surgeon's knife and skill, the Nobel laureate has thematised life and reality not only in/of South Africa as such but with a complex, often paradoxical perspective in hos own quest for a new humanism. The study looks critically at Coetzee's fictional oeuvre in order ro help readers in understanding his complex fictional world.