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Elizabeth Costello : eight lessons / J.M. Coetzee.

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ISBN	9781922268440 (paperback)
Name	Coetzee, J. M., 1940- author.
Title	Elizabeth Costello : eight lessons / J.M. Coetzee.
Published	Melbourne, VIictoria : Text Publishing, 2020.
Published	©2003
Description	xiii, 233 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes	Introduction "In the flesh" by Melinda Harvey.
Contents	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	"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.
Awards note	Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2004.
Subjects	Women authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Fiction
Subjects	Women intellectuals -- Fiction
Other Names	Harvey, Melinda author of introduction, etc.
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Women authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Fiction . Women intellectuals -- Fiction . Authors: Coetzee, J. M., 1940- . Harvey, Melinda .