- Australianos, Países extranjeros, Storytelling, Australians
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, the author draws the reader toward its astonishing conclusion.
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- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- J. M. Coetzee
- First published
- 1757
- Pages
- 233
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Seuil, Mondadori
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- English, Italian, und, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9788806168759
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“THERE lS FIRST of all the problem of the opening, namely, how to get us from where we are, which is, as yet, nowhere, to the far bank.”
John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee)
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