by J. M. Coetzee · LITERATURA RANDOM HOUSE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439710455
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«Foe» is the novel by J. M. Coetzee, published by Literatura Random House in hardcover (160 pages, in Spanish).
A rewriting of Robinson Crusoe from the perspective of Susan Barton, a castaway who lives on an island with Cruso and Friday and asks the writer Daniel Foe to turn her story into a narrative. The novel explores the tyranny of storytelling, the distance between truth and invention, and the silence of Friday, who cannot speak.
Published in May 2004 in the Biblioteca J. M. Coetzee collection, translated by Alejandro García Reyes.
For readers of modern and contemporary fiction interested in a re-reading of Robinson Crusoe.
John Maxwell Coetzee AC FRSL OMG is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.
