Coetzee

Reading “Foe” took me directly back to when I was a child, and my parents forced me (didn’t let me read other books until I finished this one) to read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”. While I look back on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Foe.          I actually was pretty surprised I enjoyed the book, considering the fact that Robinson Crusoe was a book or concept I was not a fan of. Though, just like Crusoe was in Robinson Crusoe, Susan was a bit of a whiney narrator, I feel more inclined to sympathize with her as she has […]Continue reading →

Well, that was unexpected. Before last week I’d had no idea that Foe was a remodelled version of Robinson Crusoe. Interesting. I find it ironic that Susan struggles so much with her story being distorted by Foe, when the very … Continue reading →Continue reading →

This is a novel with good themes. It has you consider the reality of isolation, the value of civilization, the fallacy involved in creating compelling literature, and, of course, the great mystery of the unknown, the dissolution of knowledge, and the ever-flowing substitute of imagination. Good themes—if only they weren’t presented so poorly. Like many, […]Continue reading →

I’m not really sure how I felt about Foe. Most of the books that we’ve read this year have left a definitive mark in my mind, but I felt rather “eh” about this one. It was definitely interesting and intriguing, but nothing really mindblowing. I did, however, love the idea of the corruption of truth […] Continue reading →