ISBN |
9781922268105 (paperback) |
Name |
Coetzee, J. M., 1940- author. |
Title |
Foe / J.M. Coetzee. |
Published |
Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2019. |
©1986 |
Description |
xii, 148 pages ; 20 cm. |
Notes |
Introduction "She and her man" by Peter Goldsworthy. |
First published in Great Britain by Secker & Warburg, 1986. |
Summary |
In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. In this extraordinary novel J. M. Coetzee asks his readers to re-imagine Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. It is the early 1700s. A young woman, Susan Barton, washes ashore on a remote island, populated only by Cruso and Friday, his mute slave. It will finally fall to Barton, having been rescued, to tell their tale of survival--but in order to do that she must grapple with the nature of storytelling itself. |
Subjects |
Survival -- Fiction |
Authorship -- Fiction |
Genre |
Didactic fiction |
Allegories |
Other Names |
Goldsworthy, Peter, 1951- author of introduction, etc. |
Inspired by: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe |
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