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| Author | J. M. Coetzee |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction, Literature |
| Publisher | Secker & Warburg |
Publication date | 30 September 2003 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print (Hardback), (Paperback) |
| Pages | 224pp |
| ISBN | 0-436-20616-1 |
| OCLC | 52456771 |
Elizabeth Costello is a 2003 novel by South African-born Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee.
In this novel, Elizabeth Costello, a celebrated aging Australian writer, travels around the world and gives lectures on topics including the lives of animals and literary censorship. In her youth, Costello wrote The House on Eccles Street, a novel that re-tells James Joyce's Ulysses from the perspective of the protagonist's wife, Molly Bloom. Costello, becoming weary from old age, confronts her fame, which seems further and further removed from who she has become, and struggles with issues of belief, vegetarianism, sexuality, language and evil. Many of the lectures Costello gives are edited fragments that Coetzee had previously published. The lessons she delivers only tenuously speak to the work for which she is being honored.[1] Of note, Elizabeth Costello is the main character in Coetzee's academic novel, The Lives of Animals (1999). A character named Elizabeth Costello also appears in Coetzee's 2005 novel Slow Man and Coetzee's 2011 short story Lies is about a woman with the last name Costello.
- ^ Gonzalez, Madelena (July 2014). "United States of Banana (2011), Elizabeth Costello (2003) and Fury (2001): Portrait of the Writer as the 'Bad Subject' of Globalisation". Études britanniques contemporaines. 46 (46 2014). d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines: 1–16. Retrieved 13 July 2014.