NP: BIG Coetzee spoiler

[Mark Kohut]

She is not in "Diary of a Bad Year". Coetzee found her necessary for 'Slow Man".....another writer-figure.

That "Lives of Animals" chapter was separately published, as mentioned.


--- On Fri, 9/26/08, Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> From: Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.net>
> Subject: Re: NP: BIG Coetzee spoiler
> To: "Glenn Scheper" <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net>
> Cc: "P-List" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, September 26, 2008, 7:00 PM
> The paper is Chapter Two of Coetzee's Elizabeth
> Costello, I think word  
> for word. One might ask what this woman is doing, a book of
> her own,  
> The Lives of Animals, and popping up unannounced in Slow
> Man. I can't  
> recall off hand if she made an appearance in Diary of a Bad
> Year.
> 
> Lawrence
> 
> On Sep 26, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Glenn Scheper wrote:
> 
> > If you plan to read the following paper, do so first,
> straight thru:
> >
> http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/pubs/OP17_Coetzee.pdf
> > THE NOVEL IN AFRICA - (a lecture) - J.M. COETZEE
> >
> > No, I wont even spoil it here, unless you open it.
> > But the last paragraph before its notes is tantric,
> > terrific, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
> > --Don't go there first!
> >
> > Yours truly,
> > Glenn Scheper
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
> > glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
> > Copyleft(!) Forward freely.
> >
> >