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Slow Man : J. M. Coetzee, a Novelist Narrating the Love

The winner of Nobel Prize in literature in the year 2003, J M Coetzee is a man of his own kind, an engineer with his own tools. His novels were wedded with real world, until he wrote ‘Disgrace’. By ‘Disgrace’ he became the first writer to pocket the Booker Prize twice. Then he wrote his novels Elizabeth Costello (2003) and Slow Man (2005), the neat fiction. ‘Slow Man’ tries to draw a line between fiction and reality. In ‘Slow Man’ the subject matter flows like a wide waterway. Here Coetzee tries to define the region wherein both fiction and reality lives in neighbourhood, having common entrance and exit doors.

Writers who have insight into human minds and who hold immense sympathy for mankind would hardly resist the urge for choosing one or another set of ethics. Though in his unique pattern, Coetzee, too, does so in Slow Man. Paul Rayment is a retired photographer who should lead a comfortable old age, a life without astonishing events. But even after being reduced to a one lagged-life, this man of aging flesh, Paul thinks about his nurses’ soft skin and shapely calves. The art of growing older is, perhaps, missing form us, the humans.

We tally our bank balances; we pay our bills in time, more or less; but we fail to address the issues of vital importance to our life, especially the life after retirement—a period that could be the most beautiful spell in life of a person. At this state one must have a clear-cut account of what has been achieved and what remains yet to be achieved. Here the question crops up that ‘what’ should really be done. Coetzee winks at that area.

The protagonist of Slow Man tries to find meaning in his life. He thinks about becoming foster father of a boy named Drago who is son of his nurse. He loves to love children of Marijana; even he is ready to accommodate her husband in his life. The imposing presence of Marijana and her occasional absence expose him to his inner emptiness. He yearns for filling the gaps in his life.

Such a spell of emptiness is agonizing, especially in the later phase of our life journey. The traveller finds the road ahead darkening. Literature provides us some light in the darkness. The great thinkers, and their writings, have upgraded the literature to the level of religion in secularized section of people. Keeping pace with this movement for providing primal education, Coetzee has carved out a striking statement in Slow Man. He has scripted a message, the message about the art of living.

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