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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... replied Cruso. Yet at other times, as for instance when he was in the grip of the fever (and should we not believe that in fever as in drunkenness the truth speaks itself willy-nilly?) he would tell stories of cannibals, of how Friday ...
... replied, smiling to himself as though no answer were possible. “Why, you might sail to the coast of Brazil, or meet a ship and be saved.” “Brazil is hundreds of miles distant, and full of cannibals,” said he. "As for sailing-ships, we ...
... replied, standing up (and I was nearly as tall as he). "I am a castaway, not a prisoner. If I had shoes, or if you would give me the means to make shoes, I would not need to steal about like a thief.” 'Later in the day, when my temper ...
... replied Cruso. "This is not 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 ...
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