Foe

✍ Scribed by J. M. Coetzee

• Publisher: Penguin Random House
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 92 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 8439729626

✦ Synopsis

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 Crusoeand 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 Foeas
by Coetzee himselfthe stories we thought we knew acquire depths that are at
once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly moving.

~from the back cover