Foe

ISBN-13: 9780140096231 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 160 str.

J. M. Coetzee

Opis

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.

O autorze

J. M. Coetzee, geb. 1940 in Kapstadt, lehrte von 1972 bis 2002 als Literaturprofessor in seiner Heimatstadt und gehört zu den bedeutendsten Autoren der Gegenwart. Er wurde für seine Romane und sein umfangreiches essayistisches Werk mit vielen internationalen Preisen ausgezeichnet, u. a. zweimal mit dem Booker Prize. 22003 wurde ihm der Nobelpreis für Literatur verliehen. Coetzee lebt seit 2002 in Adelaide, Australien.