Diary of a Bad Year

[Richard Ryan]

Elizabeth Costello has some black comic moments.  I
imagine that the Nobel Lecture must have been
painfully  funny to hear.


--- Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> I enjoyed "Diary of a Bad Year" very much, although
> I am usually wary 
> of  novels in which the author appears as a
> character. There even seemed 
> to be a glimpse of humour every now and then,
> something I had not been 
> able to detect in Coetzee's work before. Still, it
> would be too early to 
> claim that the man loosens up...
> 
> Thomas
> 
> >
> > I just finished reading Coetzee's latest book and
> wondered if any  
> > other members of this august list had read it. Any
> preliminary thoughts?
> >
> > Lawrence
> 
> 
>