Name: elizabeth costello
SKU: 4525692
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Author: J. M. Coetzee
ISBN: 9780099461920

Type

Physical Book

Author

J. M. Coetzee

Publisher

penguin classics

Year

2004

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780099461920

elizabeth costello

J. M. Coetzee (Author) · penguin classics · Paperback

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Synopsis "elizabeth costello"

elizabeth costello is an australian writer of international renown. famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. 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 a visit to her sister, a missionary in africa, who is receiving an honorary degree, an occasion which both recognize as the final opportunity for effecting some form of reconciliation and a disquieting appearance at a writers` conference in amsterdam where she finds the subject of her talk unexpectedly amongst 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 continuing search for a means of articulating her vision and the verdict of future generations.

J. M. Coetzee

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John Maxwell Coetzee (Cape Town, 1940) is a South African writer naturalized Australian, known for his austere style and focus on themes such as power, identity, and ethics. He studied literature at the universities of Cape Town and Texas, and has been a professor at the University of Cape Town. In 2003, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his contribution to universal letters.

Among his most notable works are Life & Times of Michael K (1983), awarded the Booker Prize that same year, and Disgrace (1999), which also received the Booker Prize, making him the first author to win it twice. Other notable novels include Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), Foe (1986), and Elizabeth Costello (2003). His literary output includes novels, essays, and autobiographies.

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