SUMMARY
Much of Coetzee's writing reflects either directly or indirectly on current measures describing within South African society, though critics have cautioned against frank allegorical interpretations of his work. For Coetzee the post-colonial does not sign the formal breakdown of empire, but rather a new, and in many respects more treacherous phase of colonisation. Coetzee has fought writing straight works of fiction and non-fiction, favouring instead to work across classes and genres in ways that produce ontological and epistemological questions for his readers.