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Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished Australian author in her mid-sixties celebrated for a novel she wrote decades earlier. In a series of eight 'lessons'-the transcripts of lectures and speeches-she examines such subjects as animal rights, evil and the afterlife. Published in 2003, Elizabeth Costello was the first book J. M. Coetzee published in his new home of Australia. With its blurring of the lines between fiction and non-fiction, its rigorous interrogation of weighty ideas and moments of bleak comedy, the novel issued a new and complex challenge to Coetzee's readers.

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Writer

J. M. Coetzee

Language

English

ISBN

9781922268440

Number of pages

256

Category

Elizabeth Costello - J. M. Coetzee