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 […]
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
