POSTMODERN PEOPLE IN LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHAEL K

Abstract

Literature is an art form of discovery, exploration to establish the human person in the most meaningful and beautiful way. One of the writers who was always on tenterhooks about human condition after war was John Maxwell Coetzee, the second winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in South Africa. The novel Life and Times of the Michael K, which won the Booker Prize in 1983, touched the inner pain of human beings. In this article, we identify types of postmodern people affected by both physical and mental traumas such as deformed, defective people; skeptical, lonely people; people who were longing for life and love, etc The reality of South Africa can be comprehensively exposed to readers as a cruel, paradoxical Apartheid age and simultaneously engraved in our minds the postwar-human condition.