In the first novel, the protagonist is told to declare his love for his caretaker Marijana Jokic.
In one novel by this author, a fictional author he created sets another character up on a blind date with a blind woman from the hospital and points out that Drago has been destroying the protagonist's collection of photographs of Australian mines. In another novel by this author, that aforementioned fictional author is inspired by a work about Nazi torture and gives a speech on "Witness, Silence, and Censorship." That novel ends with a re-imagining of Hoffsmanthal's Lord Chandos Letter. In the first novel, the protagonist is told to declare his love for his caretaker Marijana Jokic. That character is Paul Rayment, who was injured in the knee after a bicycling accident. This author created a character who wrote The House on Eccles Street, which retells the story of Molly Bloom, and appears in such novels as Slow Man. For 10 points, name creator of Elizabeth Costello, who also wrote The Life and Times of Michael K and Disgrace.
In one novel by this author, a fictional author he created sets another character up on a blind date with a blind woman from the hospital and points out that Drago has been destroying the protagonist's collection of photographs of Australian mines.
John Maxwell Coetzee