Elisa Sotgiu
I received my PhD from the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard last November. In my research, I focus on the contemporary global novel from a sociological perspective, and I am currently revising my dissertation, Counter-Republics of Letters: Politics, Publishing, and the Global Novel, into a book. I live in Italy, where I teach English literature and writing online.
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esteso nell’ultimo romanzo, dove non più l’io ma il mondo è guardato con occhi alieni.
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This talk will analyze Coetzee’s solution to this problem over the last few decades. In the 1990s, he starts using fiction in lieu of the polemical essay (e.g. in his Tanner Lectures and Nobel Prize address). Moreover, taking Jesus as a model of how to live outside politics, he creates fiction that demands readers search for moral lessons, as demonstrated in the secular Gospel of Elizabeth Costello. He uses his position within the international literary field to make a polemical point. Pitting “the North” against “the South,” he decides to become first and foremost a writer of the South, a writer for people who read fiction to understand how to live their lives. His decision to publish his new books with the Argentinian publishing house El Hilo De Ariadna, which specializes in religion and sophia perennis, exhibits his intention to write for receptive disciples rather than for the northern Pharisees. To the well-educated audiences of Europe and North America he directs his non-argumentative, non-rational polemical message: “Woe unto you.”
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esteso nell’ultimo romanzo, dove non più l’io ma il mondo è guardato con occhi alieni.
This talk will analyze Coetzee’s solution to this problem over the last few decades. In the 1990s, he starts using fiction in lieu of the polemical essay (e.g. in his Tanner Lectures and Nobel Prize address). Moreover, taking Jesus as a model of how to live outside politics, he creates fiction that demands readers search for moral lessons, as demonstrated in the secular Gospel of Elizabeth Costello. He uses his position within the international literary field to make a polemical point. Pitting “the North” against “the South,” he decides to become first and foremost a writer of the South, a writer for people who read fiction to understand how to live their lives. His decision to publish his new books with the Argentinian publishing house El Hilo De Ariadna, which specializes in religion and sophia perennis, exhibits his intention to write for receptive disciples rather than for the northern Pharisees. To the well-educated audiences of Europe and North America he directs his non-argumentative, non-rational polemical message: “Woe unto you.”