John Maxwell Coetzee

Elizabeth Costello

Elizabeth tirelessly lectures and gives speeches all over the world. Although it is not entirely clear in this work where fiction ends and fiction begins, the character of Elizabeth is a metaphor for a writer who does not write but gives formal speeches.

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Shame is a novel by J. M. Coetzee, published in 1999. It won the Booker Prize. The author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature four years after its publication.