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It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small

Foe by J.M. Coetzee

Expedition to the Baobab Trees by Wilma Stockenstrom

June 11, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Foe – 4/5 Stars Foe is J.M. Coetzee’s 1986  retelling of Daniel Dafoe’s Robinson Crusoe. In this version, we get the story through Mary Barton, another shipwreck survivor who finds herself in the presence of Friday and Crusoe on their island. She lives there for years in a kind of chaste triple marriage up until Crusoe’s death. She and Friday are later rescued and she brings him to England to live. She takes him to London and there meets Daniel Foe who she recounts their […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: expedition to the baobab trees, foe, jm coetzee, wilma stockenstrom

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:340 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: expedition to the baobab trees, foe, jm coetzee, wilma stockenstrom ·
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