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 womanas life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling.
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J. M. Coetzee has won many literary awards, including the Nobel Prize in 2003, three CNA prizes (South Africa's premier literary award), two Booker prizes, the Prix Etranger Femina, the Jerusalem Prize, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. He lives in Australia.
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在所有幸存下来的卡夫卡的相片中,我们可以看到他那盯着我们的目光,这是一种纯粹惊异的目光:惊异、震惊、惊恐。在所有人中,卡夫卡在心理上是最没有安全感的。他好像在说:“这是,这就是上帝的形象吗?”
讓我們假設,儘管問題可能已經得到了解決;但是,實際上,它正在解決之中。讓我們假設,橋造好了,架好了,我們可以不去掛念它了。那留在我們身後的,是我們的過去的處境。我們是在一個遙遠的地方,那是我們嚮往的地方。
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