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''Slow Man'' is a 2005 novel by South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, and concerns a man who must learn to adapt after losing a leg in a road accident. The novel has many varied themes, including the nature of care, the relationship between an author and his characters, and man's drive to leave a legacy. It was Coetzee's first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. The novel was longlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize.〔http://www.themanbookerprize.com/man-booker-prize-2005 Retrieved 17 May 2015〕 ==Characters== *Paul Rayment, a French expatriate in his sixties now living in Adelaide, who at the beginning of the novel has his right leg above the knee amputated after a bicycle accident. He is a photographer by profession who has no children of his own and no ties to his homeland or his adopted country, except a collection of 19th-century Australian photographs. *Elizabeth Costello, an aging Australian writer famous for her early novel ''The House on Eccles Street'', which re-tells James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' from the perspective of the protagonist's wife, Molly Bloom. She appears on Paul's doorstep about one-third into the novel and begins interfering with his life by setting him up on a 'blind' date with a woman he glimpsed at the hospital. It is also heavily implied throughout the novel that he is a character in a book she is writing. Costello is the eponymous protagonist of Coetzee's previous novel. *Marijana Jokic, a paid nurse who cares for Paul at his home and becomes the object of his affections and desires. Her family are refugees from Croatia. *Drago Jokic, Marijana's sixteen-year-old son, whom Paul looks upon as the son he never had. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Slow Man」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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