The Allegory Study Of J.M Coetzee’s Novels

J.M Coetzee is a South Africa contemporary writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in2003. His novel has won the international prize for Literature which depicts the history ofSouth Africa under apartheid system and social issues. The form and content of J.M Coetzee’swork is not only profound in content, such as delicate structures, meaningful dialogues andinsightful reflection, but also has excellent techniques such as allegorical writing obviously.The introduction of this thesis gives an account of Coetzee’s life and his works, and anoverview of the research status quo both at home and abroad，which explains the significanceof the subject and the structure of the paper.This article is divided into three sections. The first section mainly defines theconnotation of traditional and modern allegory, which its inheritance and development,through the analyzing the different meaning in the development of western allegory theory.Understand the precise analysis of the predecessors for its theory, then discusses the meaningof the Coetzee’s works. The second section mainly analyses I intertextuality and metanarrativeof J.M Coetzee’s novel by reading his novels THE OF PETERSBURG, FOE, LIFES AND TIMES OFMICHAEL K, ELIZABETH COSTELLO: EIGHT LESSONS, SLOW MAN, DISGRACE, and discussesthe essential characteristic of allegory in texts. That is, the state of diversity, fragments andmelancholy presents it self in the novel. The last section mainly tries to explore the courses offorming allegory in Coetzee’ fictions from culture and identity, under the complex historicalbackground of South Africa.In short, Coetzee’s feature of allegorical writing, It can open a new window for a betterunderstanding of Coetzee’s fiction’s artistic values, the age’s characteristics and his status incontemporary writing.