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 -- fêted, 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.- From the Hardcover edition.
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伊莉莎白.卡斯特洛 柯慈 (Coetzee, J. M.), 1940- ISBN: 9574504042 (平裝) : NT$250
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評分庫切的小說,我一口氣買瞭五本,衝著他留給人的好印象。我一般不願意買小說,買得多是文學批評方麵的著作,或是維特根斯坦《哲學研究》這類“哲學叢書”。簡言之,我很看重書的工具意義,好像它們紛紛對應一口幽井。我希望它們值得反復看,每次重讀都有受益。因平時對小說寫作...
評分庫切的小說,我一口氣買瞭五本,衝著他留給人的好印象。我一般不願意買小說,買得多是文學批評方麵的著作,或是維特根斯坦《哲學研究》這類“哲學叢書”。簡言之,我很看重書的工具意義,好像它們紛紛對應一口幽井。我希望它們值得反復看,每次重讀都有受益。因平時對小說寫作...
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