The author on the stage with multiple hats in J. M. Coetzee s Elisabeth Costello

J.M. Coetzee is directly or indirectly always concerned with the multi-layered narrative texts problematising concept of authorship and narration. This study treats two novels as “textual narratives” “narrative dramas” at a time. From postclassical narratological perspective, investigates narrators levels in J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello (2003) authors without authority. The characters novel occupy roles authors, having remarkable intellectual, self-conscious reflective capabilities. implied author, playing evasive links between biographical connotations fictional denotations, elucidates status regarding various authorial strategies. aims to reveal that it complicates voices further incorporates them author. study, therefore, foregrounding insights into literary representation characters, explores how questions notions fiction, history, metatextual drama amalgamating elements representation, ideology morality, politics (ecopolitics) theory, writing semiotic praxis performance. paper concludes undermines hierarchical concepts binary oppositions (textual, fictional, cultural, historical) assumed produced through act representation.