Beatrice

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• Coetzee’s writing will be delighted at the publication of The Pole and Other Stories.
• What may be surprising to some about this collection is that the stories have all appeared before in some form – but not always in English.
• The longest, The Pole, was first published in Spanish by an Argentinian press in 2022 as a standalone novella, El Polaco.
• Coetzee has suggested he is interested in his work appearing in the Southern Hemisphere before it appears in the Global North.

Elizabeth Costello

• Readers familiar with Coetzee’s work will recognise the fictional character of Australian feminist writer Elizabeth Costello in four stories: As a Woman Grows Older, The Old Woman and the Cats, The Glass Abattoir, and Hope.
• In the last of these stories, Elizabeth has been diagnosed with early dementia.
• As in Coetzee’s earlier book Elizabeth Costello (2003), these discussions are presented as “moral tales” or “lessons”, often in the form of stories within stories, whose ultimate meaning is debated or deferred.

The Pole

• This body-soul relation is explored at greatest length in The Pole, the first and most substantial story of the collection (it takes up more than half of the book).
• Witold, an ageing Polish pianist who is a well-known interpreter of the music of fellow Pole Frédéric Chopin, is invited to play at a private concert in Barcelona.
• Beatriz, the Spanish society woman who is acting as his host, speaks no Polish and Witold speaks no Spanish.
• This intimate mother-child scene and its discussion of body parts provides one of the story’s lighter, even amusing, moments.
• Beatriz has the poems translated from Polish to Spanish by a woman translator who admits to having no ear for poetry.

Animal-human interactions

• It appears too in The Old Woman and the Cats, where Elizabeth Costello prepares herself for her “last move” – her death and, perhaps, journey to an afterlife.
• This gap between human thought and animal being is raised again in The Glass Abattoir and The Dog.
• Her role as writer, she suggests at the end of the story, is to remember and record the suffering of these animals.
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An extraordinary literary legacy

• They echo Coetzee’s major themes and satisfyingly represent the range and depth of his later fiction.
• In a recent interview, Coetzee looked back at his long writing career (as Elizabeth Costello does in several of these stories).
• The Pole and Other Stories is a timely reminder of Coetzee’s extraordinary literary legacy, which is so much more profound than this modest understatement would suggest.

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