“A purgatory of clichés”: Elizabeth Costello and the Impossible Paradise for Writers
“At the gate” is the closing piece in J. M. Coetzee’s collection of short stories Elizabeth Costello (2003). It depicts Costello, fictitious novelist and prominent character in Coetzee’s late production, and the Kafkaesque waiting-room for Paradise she finds herself in. The first aim of this essay i...
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Università degli Studi di Milano
2012-05-01
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| Series: | Altre Modernità |
| Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/2141 |