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J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. 

Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, among other awards, two Booker Prizes, and most recently, the Nobel Prize, Coetzee has once again crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale. Told through an ingenious series of formal addresses, Elizabeth Costello is, on the surface, the story of a woman's life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPenguin Books
Release dateMar 7, 2017
ISBN9781524705503
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Elizabeth Costello: Fiction
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J.M. Coetzee

J.M. Coetzee nació en 1940 en Ciudad del Cabo, Sudáfrica. Allí se crió y más tarde cursó estudios universitarios para luego irse a la Universidad de Austin, Texas, y doctorarse en Literatura. En 1972 volvió a Sudáfrica, y desde entonces es profesor en la Universidad de Ciudad del Cabo, además de traductor, lingüista, crítico literario y, sin duda, uno de los escritores más importantes que ha dado Sudáfrica. Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2003, ha sido galardonado con numerosos premios, entre los que destaca el prestigioso premio Booker, que ganó en dos ocasiones, con Vida y época de Michael K (2006) y con Desgracia (2000). Otros títulospublicados en Literatura Random House incluyen Infancia (2001), Juventud (2002), Elizabeth Costello (2004), Hombre lento (2005), Diario de un mal año (2007), La infancia de Jesús (2013), Los días de Jesús en la escuela (2017) y Siete cuentos morales (2018). También ha publicado varios libros de ensayo, entre los que destacan Contra la censura (Debate, 2007), Costas extrañas (Debate, 2004), Mecanismosinternos (2009), Las manos de los maestros (dos volúmenes, 2016), la correspondencia mantenida con Paul Auster, Aquí y ahora (2012), y una conversación con la terapeuta Arabella Kurtz, El buen relato (2015). Asimismo, fue galardonado en España con los premios Llibreter 2003 y Reino de Redonda (2001), creado por el escritor Javier Marías.

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    Aug 24, 2024

    Through accounts of some lectures to which the writer Elizabeth Costello is invited, Coetzee illuminates a remote but fundamental area of the writer's craft. We see the doubts, the misunderstanding of opposing ideas, etc., always from the writer's self-criticism. Absolutely brilliant. (Translated from Spanish)
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    Oct 4, 2019

    I previously read "Seven Moral Tales," not knowing that the protagonist of those stories is Elizabeth Costello, a now-celebrated character by Coetzee. I was so intrigued by the eccentric protagonist, who is Coetzee's alter ego, that I immediately bought this novel. I find it very interesting that Coetzee chose a female character as his alter ego. Elizabeth Costello is a writer who creates works ranging from a novel based on the perspective of Molly Bloom, a "secondary" character in Joyce's "Ulysses," to an essay on animal concentration camps. But in this book, we will not only read reflections on animal violence or the writing profession; we will also explore motherhood, family, violence, ethics, and morality in general, even death and the afterlife. Reflecting on Elizabeth Costello in my mind feels like having read many stories within a single book. It is a deep, lucid, contemporary, and necessary novel. When we read Coetzee, the quality of his prose is assured, but in this novel, he truly surpasses himself. (Translated from Spanish)