Something like an introduction

Well, if you've found your way to this page then the odds are that this is not your introduction to Mr. Coetzee's work, but I'll say a couple things about him anyway for the sake of framing the rest of this paragraph.  Mr. Coetzee is a postmodern anti-imperialist author hailing from South Africa with a particular interest in the personal, political, and social dynamics of oppression.  Among other things.  Or so he would seem to have us believe.  Anyway, his work is like a literary critic's Gordian knot, and with no Alexander to come cut it in two for us, we literati are just going to have to put our thinking-caps on and get our hands dirty if we want to try and figure it out.  To that end, this blog is intended to be a place for the dirtying of hands, as I, and anyone who may feel so inclined, share freely our critical observations of his work.  Hopefully we can all come away from this with something resembles an understanding of his writing, or at the very least that warm, fuzzy feeling that we all surely get from engaging in focused literary critical discourse.