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Coetzee, J. M. Elizabeth Costello.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Oct. 2003. 234p. Viking, $21.95 (0-670-03130-5).
Although it's billed as "a novel masquerading as a biography," some readers may speculate that Coetzee's newest is a biography posing as a novel, or even lectures formed into fiction (six portions were previously published separately). The format is instantly intriguing. Elizabeth Costello is a near-elderly Australian novelist who remains best known for an early work in which she appropriates James Joyce's Ulysses character, Molly Bloom. Coetzee tackles problems of writing, literature, philosophy, and family through eight "lessons," most of which center on a lengthy formal address. In "Realism," Costello travels to Pennsylvania with her son to receive an award: Coetzee slyly enumerates conventions of realistic storytelling even as he guides Costello through ...
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...paper approaches Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello (2003), in particular the section entitled "Elizabeth Costello and the Problem of Evil" (originally...that Coetzee is presenting Elizabeth Costello as a latter-day Hannah Arendt...
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- Magazine article from: The New Leader Brown, Rosellen November 1, 2003 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Journal of Literary Studies Bethlehem, Louise December 1, 2005 700+ words
...a matter of critical orthodoxy, Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (2003) rejects...Lesson 8: At the Gate", of Elizabeth Costello contains a persistent interrogation...kritiese ortodoksie geword het, verwerp Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (2003) vir sy skrywerhoofkarakter...
- FICTION; Laureate's lessons; "Elizabeth Costello" speaks her mind for...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Tillotson, Kristin October 19, 2003 700+ words
...the Oct. 2 announcement. But "Elizabeth Costello" is not an inviting introduction...far better choice. That said, "Elizabeth Costello" likely will appeal to Coetzee...shine less brightly than usual in "Elizabeth Costello," it is because this book is intended...
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- Magazine article from: Traffic Macfarlane, Elizabeth January 1, 2006 700+ words
...Lesson' of Coetzee's 2003 novel Elizabeth Costello, the title character is faced with...In Coetzee's 2003 novel Elizabeth Costello, the celebrated author turned travelling...WOMAN Lesson 8 'At the Gate', as Elizabeth Costello herself points out, bears striking...
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- Magazine article from: Journal of Literary Studies Nethersole, Reingard December 1, 2005 700+ words
...versameling "lesse" in sy 2003-werk Elizabeth Costello afsluit, tesame met Hofmannsthal...Coetzee's fictional avatar, aging Elizabeth Costello, in anticipation of a rare meeting...texts are aptly subtitled in the book Elizabeth Costello--is the gap, the middle, the...
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- Magazine article from: English Studies in Canada Randall, Don March 1, 2007 700+ words
...more starkly and disturbingly in Elizabeth Costello (2002), the modern human community...modern human collectives. As novelist Elizabeth Costello observes to a gathering of academics...development of Disgrace and throughout Elizabeth Costello, works to discern the relationships...
