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Foe

By Coetzee, J M

Foe Contemporary literature

Foe

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With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe-and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. In 1720 the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe is approached by Susan Barton, lately a castaway on a desert island. She wants him to tell her story, and that of the enigmatic man who has become her rescuer, companion, master and sometimes lover: Cruso. Cruso is dead, and his manservant, Friday, is incapable of speech. As she tries to relate the truth about him, the ambitious Barton cannot help turning Cruso into her invention. For as narrated by Foe-as by Coetzee himself-the stories we thought we knew acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly moving.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
162
Release Date:
1987-09-24
Publication Date:
1988-01-05
Publisher:
Random House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
014009623X
ISBN13:
9780140096231
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
133 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
15 cm

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