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Dusklands J.M. Coetzee

Dusklands By J.M. Coetzee

Dusklands by J.M. Coetzee

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Summary

This work contains two novellas. In the first, a specialist in psychological warfare is driven to murderous action by the stresses of a macabre project to win the Vietnam War, and in the second, a megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengence on a Hottentot tribe.

Dusklands Summary

Dusklands: The Vietnam Project; the Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee by J.M. Coetzee

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

About J.M. Coetzee

Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, John Michael Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in literature. In 1972 he returned to South Africa and joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town. His works of fiction include Dusklands, Waiting for the Barbarians, which won South Africa's highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Literary Award, and the Life and Times of Michael K., for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983. He has also published a memoir, Boyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life, and several essays collections. He has won many other literary prizes including the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize. In 1999 he again won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for Disgrace, becoming the first author to win the award twice in its 31-year history. In 2003, Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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GOR002370527
9780140241778
0140241779
Dusklands: The Vietnam Project; the Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee by J.M. Coetzee
J.M. Coetzee
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
1996-07-25
144
N/A
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