Foe Paperback - 1988
by J. M. Coetzee
In this brilliant reshaping of Defoe's classic tale starring Robinson Crusoe, Coetzee explores the relationships between speech and silence, master and slave, story and storyteller, and sanity and madness.
Summary
With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to Waiting for the Barbarians and The 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.
Details
- Title Foe
- Author J. M. Coetzee
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date January 5, 1988
- ISBN 9780140096231 / 014009623X
- Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 7.79 x 5.13 x 0.49 in (19.79 x 13.03 x 1.24 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Survival after airplane accidents,, Islands
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 87011913
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"Foe is a finely honed testament to its author's intelligence, imagination, and skill.... The writing is lucid and precise, the landscape depicted mythic yet specific." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 11/20/1987, Page 0
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