| Record Number |
862734 |
| ISBN |
9781922268105 (paperback) |
| Author |
Coetzee, J. M., 1940- author. |
| Title |
Foe / J.M. Coetzee ; introduced by Peter Goldsworthy. |
| Publisher/Date |
Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2019. |
| ©1986 |
| Pagination etc. |
xii, 148 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Contents note |
First published in Great Britain by Secker & Warburg, 1986. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Subject |
Survival -- Fiction |
| Authorship -- Fiction |
| Didactic fiction. |
| Allegories. |
| Added Author |
Goldsworthy, Peter, 1951- writer of introduction. |
| Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 Robinson Crusoe |
| Shelf Location |
F COET |
