Foe
I really enjoyed reading Foe overall, but I can completely see why some people here may have not enjoyed it so much. It doesn’t lend itself to explaining certain aspects when it needs to – instead of clarifying certain back stories and messages at times, the text decides to include pointless details and troubling narrative […]
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Foe
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 →
Podcast: The Waste Land and Foe
Discussion with Jon Beasley-Murray and Kevin McNeilly
A Foe of a book.
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 […]
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Thoughts on Foe
I didn’t mind reading this story because it was quite short, but I really didn’t enjoy reading this book at all. After already reading Robinson Crusoe earlier in the year, the last thing I wanted to read was another story … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Foe… the foe?
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 →
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J M Coetzee, Foe
Video of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme
Foe
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, […]
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man makes story/story makes man OR I still love you Coetzee
Well, Coetzee seems to be getting a lot of hate from Arts One LB1.But my trusty friend Wikipidea tells me it’s not only us. Upon it’s publication, Foe was ill-received even by the fancier critics. Interesting. I’m tired of doing … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Foe
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 →