Dusklands: The Vietnam Project; the Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee - Softcover

Coetzee, J M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140241779 ISBN 13: 9780140241778

Publisher: Penguin, 1996

Synopsis

"J.M. Coetzee's vision goes to the nerve center of being."--Nadine Gordimer J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2017 will be available January 2018. A shattering pair of novellas in the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Dusklands probes the links between the powerful and the powerless. "Vietnam Project" is narrated by a researcher investigating the effectiveness of United States propaganda and psychological warfare in Vietnam. The question of power is also explored in "The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee," the story of an eighteenth-century Boer frontiersman who vows revenge on the Hottentot natives because they have failed to treat him with the respect that he thinks a white man deserves. With striking intensity, J. M. Coetzee penetrates the twilight land of obsession, charting the nature on colonization as it seeks, in 1970 as in 1760, to absorb the wilds into the Western dusklands.

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Review:

"Intense, clear and powerful. The promise, so brilliantly fulfilled in his later work, is clear in this earliest novel." --Daily Telegraph

Book Description:

The lives of a Boer frontiersman and a specialist in psychological warfare living two centuries apart are brought together as extremes of power politics in this brutal, ambitious debut novel from the Booker and Nobel Prize-winning J. M. Coetzee.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140241779
• ISBN 13: 9780140241778
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144