John Maxwell Coetzee's fiction is a mythopoeic journey into the deep recesses of the human mind. It reopens before us new vistas of the infinite varieties of the human psyche with its positive and negative attributes that make the human being an extremely composite character. But Coetzee has persistently been seen as a writer who depicts the predicaments of the colonized people, particularly their suffering under the hands of the colonizers who indulge in all kinds of exploitation against them. But this is perhaps a very simplistic and uncomplicated way of looking into the writer's oeuvre for...