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Contemporary Fiction

Elizabeth Costello

John Maxwell Coetzee
eng. Elizabeth Costello · 2003
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Main Ideas

Main Ideas

  • The problem of humanism and its limits
  • Ethics and animal rights
  • The role of literature and the writer in society
  • The conflict between faith and reason
  • The problem of evil and moral responsibility
  • Personal and professional self-definition
  • Questions of identity and self-awareness
Elizabeth Costello
Date of publication: 16 July 2024
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Author: 
John Maxwell Coetzee
Original title: eng. Elizabeth Costello · 2003
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