Foe: A NovelWith 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. |
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... England to escape the persecutions in Flanders. His name was properly Berton, but, as happens, it became corrupted in the mouths of strangers. My mother was an Englishwoman. “Two years ago my only daughter was abducted and conveyed to ...
... England, we have no need of a great stock of words.” “You speak as if language were one of the banes of life, like money or the pox,” said I. "Yet would it not have lightened your solitude had Friday been master of English? You and he ...
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