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

read in swiss ski town verbier. tbh, the views from my coffee shop far surpassed the book itself. essentially a series of highly didactic, exceedingly pretentious essays disguised as a story of an aging writer giving lectures around the world. enjoyed the first “lecture” (lesson 1: “realism”) and really, really enjoyed the last (lesson 8: “at the gate”) but the others were scattered & tedious. i will concede, though, lessons 3 (“the lives of animals: the philosophers and the animals”) and 4 (“the lives of animals: the poets and the animals”) almost convinced me of the futility of being vegetarian