| Record Number |
862736 |
| ISBN |
9781922268440 (paperback) |
| Author |
Coetzee, J. M., 1940- author. |
| Title |
Elizabeth Costello : eight lessons / J.M. Coetzee. |
| Publisher/Date |
Melbourne, VIictoria : Text Publishing, 2020. |
| ©2003 |
| Pagination etc. |
xiii, 233 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Contents note |
Introduced by Melinda Harvey. |
| Lesson 1. Realism -- Lesson 2. The novel in Africa -- Lesson 3. The lives of animals 1 : the philosophers and the animals -- Lesson 4. The lives of animals 2 : the poets and the animals -- Lesson 5. The humanities in Africa -- Lesson 6. The problem of evil -- Lesson 7. Eros -- Lesson 8. At the gate -- Postscript : Letter of Elizabeth, Lady Chandos. |
| Summary Note |
"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 toward its conclusion."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Women authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Fiction |
| Women intellectuals -- Fiction |
| Added Author |
Harvey, Melinda author of introduction, etc. |
| Shelf Location |
F COET |
