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"You should read Defoe's Robinson Crusoe before reading Coetzee's Foe"
-said anyone with the least of literary sensitivity and there is me who totally went full throttle on this book.The narrative perspective here is as slippery as a mouldy bar of soap.During the last chapter, I was basically yelling:" Who is talking, here?? Foe, Susan,Heck, is it Friday?!!" Now, I understand why it is considered as a pillar in the metafictional genre.Way to fill my soul with doubt, Coetzee.Now, I will be questioning every narrator and doubting every POV because your scope of perception was all over the place.
-said anyone with the least of literary sensitivity and there is me who totally went full throttle on this book.The narrative perspective here is as slippery as a mouldy bar of soap.During the last chapter, I was basically yelling:" Who is talking, here?? Foe, Susan,Heck, is it Friday?!!" Now, I understand why it is considered as a pillar in the metafictional genre.Way to fill my soul with doubt, Coetzee.Now, I will be questioning every narrator and doubting every POV because your scope of perception was all over the place.