Autho and literary character in Slow Man of J.M.Coetzee

DOI: 10.18173/2354-1069.2020-0024

Abstract

Slow Man is a metafiction of J.M.Coetzee. Many stories related to literature were showed in this novel, especially the issue of author and literary character. This article analyses the power and the limitation of the author, the effort of the character to escape from the author’s control and their alteration to have a positive relationship