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This paper investigates the way the South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, represents the harshness of the South African political atmosphere and the method of overcoming the violent relationship between the people in the country. Coetzee does not take the position of other white intellectuals who attempt to support the struggle of the black by their engagements through their writings. He rather chooses to keep a little distance from the strifes and muses upon the new relationship with the others. In Age of Iron, he suggests to the readers that giving hospitality to the others and building ethical relation with them are the only method to dissipate the violence between people. He illustrates this idea with Mrs. Curren’s relationships with the black children, Bheki and John, and with the mythical alcoholic Vercueil. Mrs. Curren moves over her boundary of self when she can accept and trust the incomprehensible character, Vercueil.
