J. M. Coetzee: Elizabeth Costello, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

Elizabeth Costello is a humane, moral, and uncompromising creation; a masterful novel that offers us a profound and delicate vision of literary celebrity, artistry and the private life of the mind.

Beschreibung

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 recognise 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.

Rezension

"One of Coetzee's best...simply burns with creative passion" D. J. Taylor Independent 20041221

Klappentext

New work of fiction from one of our greatest living novelists. Coetzee won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2003 and has twice won the Booker Prize. Explores the life of an Australian writer of international renown. "One of Coetzee's best... simply burns with creative passion" D. J. Taylor, "Independent"