Dusklands
by COETZEE, J. M
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 043610296X
- ISBN 13
- 9780436102967
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About This Item
The author's first work of fiction, Dusklands criticizes the inherent violence of the Western world's colonial and imperial past. Really two novellas, The Vietnam Project, and The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee, the book tells the story of a 20th-century specialist in psychological warfare and an 18th-century Boer frontiersman. The last line of the first part, "I have high hopes of finding out whose fault I am," ranks as one of the most disturbing sentences in 20th-century fiction.
Synopsis
Dusklands (1974) is the first novel by J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is a presentation and critique of the violence inherent in the colonialist and imperialist mentality of the Western world. The novel actually consists of two separate stories. The first one, "The Vietnam Project", relates the gradual descent into insanity of its protagonist Eugene Dawn. Eugene works for a U.S. government agency responsible for the psychological warfare in the Vietnam War.
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- Bookseller
- Attic Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140192
- Title
- Dusklands
- Author
- COETZEE, J. M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 043610296X
- ISBN 13
- 9780436102967
- Publisher
- Secker and Warburg
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- Literature, South Africa, Vietnam, Short Stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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