Elizabeth Costello
By: J.M. Coetzee
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780670031306
Subjects: Australians; Authorship; Women authors; Storytelling; Fiction
Description: Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through a series of eight formal addresses. From an award-acceptance speech at a New England liberal arts college to a lecture on evil in Amsterdam and a sexually charged reading by the poet Robert Duncan, the author draws the reader toward its astonishing conclusion. The novel is, on its surface, the story of a woman's life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling.
Notes: Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Realism; title: Novel in Africa; title: Lives of animals, the philosophers and the animals; title: Lives of animals, the poets and the animals; title: Humanities in Africa; title: Problem of evil; title: Eros; title: At the gate; title: Letter of Elizabeth, Lady Chandos.