Elizabeth Costello

Author : J.M. Coetzee
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409017158

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Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee Pdf

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.

Author : Bonnie Costello
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 067424690X

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Elizabeth Bishop by Bonnie Costello Pdf

The poet Elizabeth Bishop is said to have a prismatic way of seeing. In this companion to her poetry, making connections between modern art and modern poetry, Bonnie Costello aims to give a sense of the poet and her ways of seeing and writing.

Author : J.M. Coetzee
Publisher : Random House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409015871

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Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee Pdf

Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart.

Author : J. M. Coetzee
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 069107089X

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The Lives of Animals by J. M. Coetzee Pdf

The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world. Costello's son, a physics professor, admires her literary achievements, but dreads his mother's lecturing on animal rights at the college where he teaches. His colleagues resist her argument that human reason is overrated and that the inability to reason does not diminish the value of life; his wife denounces his mother's vegetarianism as a form of moral superiority. At the dinner that follows her first lecture, the guests confront Costello with a range of sympathetic and skeptical reactions to issues of animal rights, touching on broad philosophical, anthropological, and religious perspectives. Painfully for her son, Elizabeth Costello seems offensive and flaky, but--dare he admit it?--strangely on target. Here the internationally renowned writer J. M. Coetzee uses fiction to present a powerfully moving discussion of animal rights in all their complexity. He draws us into Elizabeth Costello's own sense of mortality, her compassion for animals, and her alienation from humans, even from her own family. In his fable, presented as a Tanner Lecture sponsored by the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, Coetzee immerses us in a drama reflecting the real-life situation at hand: a writer delivering a lecture on an emotionally charged issue at a prestigious university. Literature, philosophy, performance, and deep human conviction--Coetzee brings all these elements into play. As in the story of Elizabeth Costello, the Tanner Lecture is followed by responses treating the reader to a variety of perspectives, delivered by leading thinkers in different fields. Coetzee's text is accompanied by an introduction by political philosopher Amy Gutmann and responsive essays by religion scholar Wendy Doniger, primatologist Barbara Smuts, literary theorist Marjorie Garber, and moral philosopher Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation. Together the lecture-fable and the essays explore the palpable social consequences of uncompromising moral conflict and confrontation.

Author : J.M. Coetzee
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407086491

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Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee Pdf

An eminent, ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East, it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern democracy react to their state's involvement in an immoral war on terror, a war that involves the use of torture? Then in the laundry room of his apartment block he encounters an alluring young woman. He offers her work typing up his manuscript. Anya is not interested in politics, but the job will be a welcome distraction, as will the writer's evident attraction towards her. Her boyfriend, Alan, is an investment consultant who understands the world in harsh economic terms. Suspicious of his trophy girlfriend's new pastime, Alan begins to formulate a plan...

Author : J.M. Coetzee
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781473547476

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Late Essays by J.M. Coetzee Pdf

A fascinating collection of essays on literary subjects ranging from Daniel Defoe to Samuel Beckett by a Nobel and Booker Prize-winning writer Late Essays gathers together J.M. Coetzee’s literary essays from 2006 to 2017. The subjects covered in this stunning collection range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee’s contemporary Philip Roth. Coetzee has had a long-standing interest in German literature and here he engages with the work of Goethe, Hölderlin, Kleist and Walser. There are four fascinating essays on fellow Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett and he looks at the work of three Australian writers: Patrick White, Les Murray and Gerald Murnane. There are essays too on Tolstoy’s great novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich, on Flaubert’s masterpiece Madame Bovary, and on the Argentine modernist Antonio Di Benedetto.

Author : J.M. Coetzee
Publisher : Random House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473547285

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The Schooldays of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee Pdf

From the double Booker Prize-winning author of Disgrace, an astonishing novel of new beginnings and the troubles of youth. 'Brilliant... Tenaciously absorbing' Daily Telegraph David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simón and Inés take care of him in their new town, Estrella. He is learning the language, he has begun to make friends and he has the big dog Bolívar to watch over him. But he'll be seven soon and he should be at school. And so, David is enrolled in the Academy of Dance. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky. Yet it's here too that he will make troubling discoveries about what adults are capable of. The Schooldays of Jesus is a mesmerising tale about growing up, and about the choices we are forced to make in our lives. 'Compelling, often very funny, full of sudden depths' Observer Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2016

Author : Stephen Mulhall
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691137374

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The Wounded Animal by Stephen Mulhall Pdf

Taking a work by J.M. Coetzee as an example, this volume explores the way both literature and philosophy seek - and fail - to represent reality. Stephen Mulhall examines Coetzee's 'Elizabeth Costello', which deals with the moral status of animals.

Author : J. M. Coetzee
Publisher : Harvill Secker
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015059982069

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Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee Pdf

Elizabeth Costello is a humane, moral, and uncompromising creation. The subject of J.M. Coetzee's latest work of fiction is an Australian writer of international renown -- feted, studied and honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from which, it seems, she will never escape, she has reached the stage, late in life, where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. One of a new breed of intellectual nomads, 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 during which she encounters a fellow guest lecturer, an African poet also employed to divert the passengers. Then there is a disquieting appearance at a writers' conference in Amsterdam where she finds the subject of her talk unexpectedly among 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. J.M. Coetzee's latest work of fiction offers us a profound and delicate vision of literary celebrity, artistry and the private life of the mind.

Author : Elizabeth Flynn
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788728571835

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Game, Set and Murder by Elizabeth Flynn Pdf

It's the first day of the tennis tournament at Wimbledon. And something wicked has happened on court eighteen... When a double grand slam winner is found dead, newly promoted Detective Inspector Angela Costello finds herself uncovering a trail through the complicated life of the beloved victim. While she has no way of proving her many suspicions, she gets closer to the truth when a prime suspect overlooks a vital detail... A classic murder mystery in the Christie tradition, "Game, Set and Murder" is ideal for fans of that genre, tennis lovers, and anyone seeking a light but satisfying read. Praise for "Game, Set and Murder": ́I found this a very elegantly written crime detective novel ́ - Goodreads review ́Fascinating detective story. All the twists and turns really worked for me - and it was good to have a DI in her 40s as the central character - and a very real person she seems, too, a tennis fan with a happy home life ́ - Goodreads review Elizabeth Flynn is a Londoner of Anglo-Irish parentage. An ex-actress, she spent many years working as a bereavement officer in a hospital. "Game, Set and Murder" is the first in her series of DI Costello novels.

Author : J. M. Coetzee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015061378850

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What is Realism? by J. M. Coetzee Pdf

Author : Stanley Cavell,Cora Diamond,John McDowell,Ian Hacking
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231145152

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Philosophy and Animal Life by Stanley Cavell,Cora Diamond,John McDowell,Ian Hacking Pdf

This groundbreaking collection of contributions by leading philosophers offers a new way of thinking about animal rights, our obligation to animals, and the nature of philosophy itself.

Author : Paul West
Publisher : Overlook Books
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Attempted assassination
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038602145

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The Very Rich Hours of Count Von Stauffenberg by Paul West Pdf

Called one of the most original talents in American fiction by The New York Times Book Review, Paul West is a continuously surprising and satisfying writer, whose oeuvre stands as one of the most important in American literature in recent decades. With these reissues, Overlook and Tusk continue its program of publishing the brilliantly lyrical fiction of Paul West.In The Universe, and Other Fictions, Paul West embraces galaxies and molecular events, creating singular fiction as combustible and astonishing as Creation itself. In The Very Rich Hours of Count von Stauffenberg, West weaves a brilliant tapestry of fact and imagination about the ill-fated attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. In the dark literary thriller, The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper, West brilliantly recasts the Jack the Ripper story, drawing on up-to-date research and his own dazzling imagination to plumb the lower depths of Victorian England.

Author : Mac Barnett
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781368005296

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Chloe and the Lion by Mac Barnett Pdf

Meet Chloe: Every week, she collects loose change so she can buy tickets to ride the merry-go-round. But one fateful day, she gets lost in the woods on her way home, and a large dragon leaps out from-"Wait! It's supposed to be a lion," says Mac Barnett, the author of this book. But Adam Rex, the illustrator, thinks a dragon would be so much cooler (don't you agree?). Mac's power of the pen is at odds with Adam's brush, and Chloe's story hangs in the balance. Can she help them out of this quandary to be the heroine of her own story? Mac Barnett and Adam Rex are a dynamic duo, and two of the strongest contemporary voices in picture books today. In an accessible and funny way, Chloe and the Lion talks about the creative process and the joys and trials of collaboration.

Author : Mary Costello
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782116448

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The River Capture by Mary Costello Pdf

'Exceptional' The Times 'Luminous . . . Unexpected' Guardian Shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, the Dalkey Literary Awards and the Kerry Group Awards Luke O’Brien has left Dublin to live a quiet life on the bend of the River Sullane. Alone in his big house, he longs for a return to his family’s heyday and turns to books for solace. One morning a young woman arrives at his door, presenting Luke and his family with an almost impossible dilemma.