Posted on 04/10/03
A Nobel search for truth
Elizabeth CostelloBy J. M. CoetzeeSecker & Warburg,233 pages, $35The impression one gets by reading this novel is that Elizabeth Costello is her author John Maxwell Coetzee's dupe. The strange form of the book itself is cause for curiosity and misgivings surrounding its eponymous fictional heroine, an aging, illustrious Australian writer we follow from continent to continent as she receives awards, attends the lecture circuit and theorizes on various literary and ethical topics such as realism, animal welfare, the novel in Africa and, foremost, the humanistic subjects of reason and belief.
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