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Elizabeth Costello

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Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, among other awards, two Booker Prizes, and most recently, the Nobel Prize, Coetzee has once again crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale. Told through an ingenious series of formal addressesContinue

Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, among other awards, two Booker Prizes, and most recently, the Nobel Prize, Coetzee has once again crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale. 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.

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  • L’autobiografia allegorica di J. M. Coetzee

    Sei “lezioni” sulla letteratura raccontano il travaglio esistenziale di chi rifiuta ogni facile credodi Wanda Marra Per passare oltre la porta, dove c’è una luce immensa, incredibile, Elizabeth Costello deve solo fare una dichiarazione. Deve scrivere ... (read full critics)

    railibro published on Fri, 17 Feb 2012

  • It's very novel, but is it actually a novel?

    Elizabeth Costello by JM Coetzee Secker & Warburg £14.99, pp233 When a composer turns the incidental music for a play into a concert suite, or recasts a film score as a symphony, no one turns a hair. But when an acclaimed novelist offers his public a ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • A strange mixture of fiction and essays. There is no plot whatsoever, the protagonist is a bore, Kafka's shadow haunts the story in a very predictable way.

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