Father makes merry with children : madness and mythology in Dusklands -- Refusing to yield to the spectre of reason : the madwoman in the attic in In the heart of the country -- Madness and civilization in Waiting for the barbarians -- Cultivating the margins in The trial of Michael K : strategies in the service of skepticism -- Bodying forth the other : Friday and the discursive situation in Foe -- Writing in the face of death : false etymologies and home truths in The age of iron -- Evading the censor/censoring the self in The master of Petersburg -- Truth and reconciliation in Disgrace -- Coetzee's acts of genre in the later works : truth-telling, fiction, and the public intellectual.