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Dusklands

AUTHOR Coetzee, J. M.; Coetzee, J. M.
PUBLISHER Penguin Books (06/01/1985)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)

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"J.M. Coetzee's vision goes to the nerve center of being."--Nadine Gordimer

The revolutionary first fiction by Nobel Prize Winner, J.M. Coetzee

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.

2024 is the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Dusklands

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ISBN-13: 9780140241778
ISBN-10: 0140241779
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 160
Carton Quantity: 56
Product Dimensions: 5.10 x 0.58 x 7.75 inches
Weight: 0.28 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Bibliography, Price on Product
Country of Origin: US
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Fiction | Literary
Fiction | Historical - General
Fiction | World Literature - Africa - Southern Africa
Grade Level: College Freshman and up
Dewey Decimal: FIC
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"J.M. Coetzee's vision goes to the nerve center of being."--Nadine Gordimer

The revolutionary first fiction by Nobel Prize Winner, J.M. Coetzee

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.

2024 is the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Dusklands

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