On The Writing Of Confession Consciousness In JM Coetzee's Works

John Maxwell Coetzee is one of the most famous writers in contemporary world literature.He is good at depicting modern people's living predicament and spiritual confusion with cold and restrained brushwork.Most of Coetzee's works show a strong sense of confession.In the western cultural context,firstly,confession consciousness is closely related to the original sin theory in religion,and then gradually escapes from the religious field,becoming an important way of spiritual introspection,which has been realized by writers of all ages,and sometimes even internalized into the inner spiritual temperament of writers and appeared in their literary works.Coetzee's choice of confession,a unique literary expression in the special context of South Africa,is the inheritance of western cultural spirit and has profound practical significance.However,Coetzee's confession at the personal level has profound enlightenment for modern people to get rid of moral predicament.Coetzee grew up in the harshest period of apartheid in South Africa,but his mixed cultural identity made him unable to accept the Afrikaans culture in South Africa,and could not really integrate into western civilization.However,this kind of "marginal person" identity provides him with an external perspective of observation,on the basis of which Coetzee's confession consciousness is constantly formed.As a descendant of Dutch in South Africa,Coetzee took the initiative to expose the colonial sins of his ancestors in the process of exploring his personal history.Then he turned his attention to the colonized people and described their misfortune and sadness with a heart of repentance.The colonized people in his works lost their basic right to life,personal freedom and discourse,and were forced to become silencers in history.Finally,Coetzee created a group of white people with strong reflective spirit.Through their life experiences,he pointed out that confession is the only way for white people to go to self-salvation.The formation and development of Coetzee's confession consciousness also has strong personal factors.Although Coetzee has become a world-famous writer,he neglects his family's love for him intentionally or unintentionally while struggling to pursue his personal literary ideal,and he fails to give enough care and care to his relatives.Coetzee didn't wake up in grief until his relatives died one after another.Therefore,in the literary world,he expressed his love and guilt for his loved ones,and constantly tortured his soul,so as to explore the personal truth.Thinking about the lack of individual morality also led to Coetzee's confession of sex.Love and responsibility are the most important factors in the relationship between the two sexes.However,in Coetzee's works,individuals either lack the spirit of responsibility because they are unable to love,or slip into the abyss of sin because of the proliferation of sexual desire.Coetzee's confession of sex is not only mixed with his own self-reflection,but also contains a survey of the present situation of the lack of modern human morality.Repentance is essentially a discourse pattern,so how to repent becomes an art,and the writer's narrative art is very important.Based on his own understanding of confession and drawing lessons from some expressive techniques in western confession literature,Coetzee formed his own writing form.Coetzee writes his autobiography from the perspective of third person narration,which greatly breaks through the traditional writing mode of autobiographical confession.He focuses on portraying the confessor's inner self-dialogue,thus revealing the confessor's mental journey,and at the same time promoting the confessor's process through the dialogue between characters.In addition,Coetzee makes the confession text open through the uncertainty of narrative.The use of these narrative techniques makes Coetzee's confession novels deviate from the traditional confession texts in form,which shows that Coetzee transcends tradition.Confession consciousness has become the breakthrough point of Coetzee's thinking about race and personal moral defects.The penitents created by Coetzee are the undertakers of the return of ethics and morality.They are ashamed of the sins of their ancestors,and even feel guilty of drifting with the tide.However,confession gives them a new life and turns them into fighters,resisting all the filth and filth around them.Repentance at the individual level is not only a means to explore self-truth,but also provides ideas for modern people to get out of their own moral predicament.