Elizabeth Costello
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Author: J.M. Coetzee
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 240
Elizabeth Costello is a humane, moral, and uncompromising creation. The subject of J.M. Coetzee s latest work of fiction is an Australian writer of international renown f ted, studied and honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from More...which, it seems, she will never escape, she has reached the stage, late in life, where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. One of a new breed of intellectual nomads, her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public- the presentation of a major award at an American college where she is required to deliver a lecture; a sojourn as the writer-in-residence on a cruise liner during which she encounters a fellow guest lecturer, an African poet also employed to divert the passengers. Then there is a disquieting appearance at a writers conference in Amsterdam where she finds the subject of her talk unexpectedly among the audience. She has made her life s work the study of other people, yet now it is she who is the object of scrutiny. But, for her, what matters is the con
Author: J.M. Coetzee
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 240
Elizabeth Costello is a humane, moral, and uncompromising creation. The subject of J.M. Coetzee s latest work of fiction is an Australian writer of international renown f ted, studied and honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from More...which, it seems, she will never escape, she has reached the stage, late in life, where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. One of a new breed of intellectual nomads, her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public- the presentation of a major award at an American college where she is required to deliver a lecture; a sojourn as the writer-in-residence on a cruise liner during which she encounters a fellow guest lecturer, an African poet also employed to divert the passengers. Then there is a disquieting appearance at a writers conference in Amsterdam where she finds the subject of her talk unexpectedly among the audience. She has made her life s work the study of other people, yet now it is she who is the object of scrutiny. But, for her, what matters is the con
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Author: J.M. Coetzee
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 240
Elizabeth Costello is a humane, moral, and uncompromising creation. The subject of J.M. Coetzee s latest work of fiction is an Australian writer of international renown f ted, studied and honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from More...which, it seems, she will never escape, she has reached the stage, late in life, where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. One of a new breed of intellectual nomads, her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public- the presentation of a major award at an American college where she is required to deliver a lecture; a sojourn as the writer-in-residence on a cruise liner during which she encounters a fellow guest lecturer, an African poet also employed to divert the passengers. Then there is a disquieting appearance at a writers conference in Amsterdam where she finds the subject of her talk unexpectedly among the audience. She has made her life s work the study of other people, yet now it is she who is the object of scrutiny. But, for her, what matters is the con
Author: J.M. Coetzee
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 240
Elizabeth Costello is a humane, moral, and uncompromising creation. The subject of J.M. Coetzee s latest work of fiction is an Australian writer of international renown f ted, studied and honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from More...which, it seems, she will never escape, she has reached the stage, late in life, where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. One of a new breed of intellectual nomads, her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public- the presentation of a major award at an American college where she is required to deliver a lecture; a sojourn as the writer-in-residence on a cruise liner during which she encounters a fellow guest lecturer, an African poet also employed to divert the passengers. Then there is a disquieting appearance at a writers conference in Amsterdam where she finds the subject of her talk unexpectedly among the audience. She has made her life s work the study of other people, yet now it is she who is the object of scrutiny. But, for her, what matters is the con
Elizabeth Costello