J. M. Coetzee and the African Condition adds a unique insight to the wealth of Coetzean scholarship regarding literature and apartheid. It presents a lucid and intelligent account of the South African phase of Coetzee's career in which he provides an inside view of the depth and dimensions of apartheid madness. The book suggests that the insanity of apartheid, in Coetzee's fictional representation and his nonfictional writings, lies in the social deformation springing from the pathological attachments it encourages. It also brings Coetzee's nonfictional thought into the discussion of his...