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Foe

by Coetzee J. M.

Synopsis

With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought toWaiting for the BarbariansandThe Master of Petersburg,J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe—and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself

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.

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Book Information

Copyright year 1987
ISBN-13 9780140096231
ISBN-10 014009623X
Class Copyright
Publisher Penguin Books
Subject FICTION
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 157
Shelf No. GX790
Grade Range 12 - 12
Ages 18 - 99