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Article: A woman thinking in dark times?: The absent presence of Hannah Arendt in J. M. Coetzee's "Elizabeth Costello and The Problem of Evil".
- Article from:
- Journal of Literary Studies
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Summary
This paper approaches Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello (2003), in particular the section entitled "Elizabeth Costello and the Problem of Evil" (originally published in Salmagundi 2003), as a complex narrative in which intellectual and philosophical ideas merge with storytelling to create an intertextual matrix. By means of a close reading of the aforementioned "lesson", I aim to judge its contextualisation within a realm of intellectual and philosophical debates and thereby to reveal the influence of Hannah Arendt, who, I contend, emerges as one of the less obvious intertexts in a "novel" that is clearly celebrating intertextuality as a self-reflexive, ...
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