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Elizabeth Costello is a 2003 novel by South African-born Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee. In this novel, Elizabeth Costello, a celebrated aging Australian writer, travels around the world and gives lectures on topics including the lives of animals and literary censorship.
Mar 2, 2024 · Elizabeth Costello, the protagonist of the titular 2003 novel, reappears in four stories sandwiched between two other tales. The Pole is the opening salvo, the longest story taking up 146 pages.
Sep 30, 2003 · Told through an ingenious series of formal addresses, Elizabeth Costello is, on the surface, the story of a woman's life as a mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling.
Aug 11, 2020 · "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, Coetzee draws the reader inexorably ...
Elizabeth Costello. Writer. The Good War. In mid 20th century America, a mother and daughter pursue science, art, autonomy, and agency in a male-dominated, war-damaged world.
Told through an ingenious series of formal addresses, Elizabeth Costello is, on the 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.
Elizabeth Costello is a writer, born in 1928, which makes her sixty-six years old, going on sixty-seven. She has written nine novels, two books of poems, a book on bird life, and a body of journalism.
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Books. Elizabeth Costello. J. M. Coetzee. Random House UK, Oct 4, 2004 - Fiction - 224 pages. Elizabeth Costello is a humane, moral, and uncompromising creation. The subject of J.M. Coetzee’s...
My novel, The Good War, available in January 2025 from Regal House, takes some of the myths of my mother’s family out of the glass case of reverence and dirties them up with outsider lovers, hard drinking, and that great yearning that sometimes leads to art making.
