Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Light creasing to corners.
A work of profound philosophical fiction, Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons presents the life and mind of Elizabeth Costello, an aging Australian novelist whose intellectual journey unfolds across a series of formal lectures and charged encounters. Structured as eight discrete lessons, the novel chronicles Costello's confrontations with questions of animal rights, evil, the nature of realism, and the moral responsibilities of the writer, blurring the boundary between fiction and essay with masterful precision. Coetzee's prose is cool, exacting, and deeply unsettling, forcing the reader to sit with arguments that resist easy resolution and characters who refuse simple sympathy. The narrative illustrates how ideas themselves can be dramatic, transforming academic discourse into urgent, sometimes anguished, human experience. A landmark of contemporary literary fiction, it stands as one of the most intellectually daring works of the early twenty-first century.
Author: J. M. Coetzee
Format: Paperback
Published: 2004, Vintage
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Light creasing to corners.
A work of profound philosophical fiction, Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons presents the life and mind of Elizabeth Costello, an aging Australian novelist whose intellectual journey unfolds across a series of formal lectures and charged encounters. Structured as eight discrete lessons, the novel chronicles Costello's confrontations with questions of animal rights, evil, the nature of realism, and the moral responsibilities of the writer, blurring the boundary between fiction and essay with masterful precision. Coetzee's prose is cool, exacting, and deeply unsettling, forcing the reader to sit with arguments that resist easy resolution and characters who refuse simple sympathy. The narrative illustrates how ideas themselves can be dramatic, transforming academic discourse into urgent, sometimes anguished, human experience. A landmark of contemporary literary fiction, it stands as one of the most intellectually daring works of the early twenty-first century.