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Elizabeth Costello - J. M. Coetzee

Elizabeth Costello

By: J. M. Coetzee

Paperback | 4 August 2020

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Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.

Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished Australian author in her mid-sixties celebrated for a novel she wrote decades earlier. In a series of eight 'lessons'-the transcripts of lectures and speeches-she examines such subjects as animal rights, evil and the afterlife. Published in 2003, Elizabeth Costello was the first book J. M. Coetzee published in his new home of Australia. With its blurring of the lines between fiction and non-fiction, its rigorous interrogation of weighty ideas and moments of bleak comedy, the novel issued a new and complex challenge to Coetzee's readers.

About the Author

J. M. Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. His work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life and Times of Michael K, The Master of Petersburg, Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year. He lives in Adelaide.
Industry Reviews
'An intimacy born from urgency crackles through each of [Coetzee's] books, as if one is not reading a text but being plugged into a brand new form of current-reinvented each time to carry a new and urgent form of narrative information.' * John Freeman *
'Coetzee is the most radical shapeshifter alive.' * Australian *
'Freed from literary convention, Mr Coetzee writes not to provide answers, but to ask great questions.' * Economist *

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