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Elizabeth Costello

Elizabeth Costello
J.M. Coetzee

Elizabeth Costello is a 2003 novel by South African-born Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee.

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“She no longer believes very strongly in belief… Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. As happens when one writes: believing whatever has to be believed in order to get the job done.”

J.M. Coetzee book Elizabeth Costello

Elizabeth Costello (2003)

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