A review by graywacke
Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee

reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

hmm. A collection of lectures and essays, many of which Coetzee had actually given, made into a novel. He even included responses to his work. I didn't know that. Blind, I opened with a very interesting chapter on Realism. But the heart of the essays seem to revolve around Veganism from a moral perspective, which I tried very hard to care about, but nothing was concluded and these were odd and sometimes slow. Then it goes into other things Coetzee imagined, slowly. Nothing concludes, naturally. 

I think it's important and admirable that the essays were intelligent. All the thought processes on all sides were well put, argument and criticism. And that I did appreciate. But does it make a good book, or a bore? I'm done and I haven't decided yet. And if you asked me to read it again, I imagine I could be convinced to try again. So, it works in its way. It still might be bore.