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J.M. CoetzeeElizabeth CostelloFirst published in 2003ContentsLesson 1 RealismLesson 2 The Novel in AfricaLesson 3 The Lives of AnimalsONE: The Philosophers and the AnimalsLesson 4 The Lives of AnimalsTWO: The Poets and the AnimalsLesson 5 The Humanities in AfricaLesson 6 The Problem of EvilLesson 7 ErosLesson 8 At the GatePostscript: Letter of Elizabeth, Lady Chandos1RealismThere is first of all the problem of the opening, namely, how to get us from wherewe are, which is, as yet, nowhere, to the far bank. It is a simple bridgingproblem, a problem of knocking together a bridge. People solve such problems everyday. They solve them, and having solved them push on.Let us assume that, however it may have been done, it is done. Let us takeit that the bridge is built and crossed, that we can put it out of our mind. Wehave left behind the territory in which we were. We are in the far territory,where we want to be.Elizabeth Costello is a writer, born in 1928, which makes her sixty-sixyears old, going on sixty-seven. She has written nine novels, two books of poems,a book on bird life, and a body of journalism. By birth she is Australian. She wasborn in Melbourne and still lives there, though she spent the years 1951 to 1963abroad, in England and France. She has been married twice. She has two children,one by each marriage.Elizabeth Costello made her name with her fourth novel, The House on EcclesStreet (1969), whose main character is Marion Bloom, wife of Leopold Bloom,principal character of another novel, Ulysses (1922), by James Joyce. In the pastdecade there has grown up around her a small critical industry; there is even an
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    I like J.M.Coetzee so much. Many thanks

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    Yang123

    thank you very much.I'm from China

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