Foe (en español)

by J. M. Coetzee

Overview

El premio Nobel de Literatura J.M. Coetzee reinventa la historia de Robinson Crusoe.

La narradora de Foe es Susan Barton, una mujer que tras sobrevivir a un naufragio y convivir en una isla desierta con Robinson Crusoe y su esclavo mudo, Viernes, regresa a Londres con la firme intención de que el eminente escritor Daniel Foe novele lo acontecido en la isla.

La reescritura del clásico de Daniel Defoe da voz a una nueva versión de la historia. La evolución del personaje central, la narración epistolar que constituye gran parte del libro y el suspense propio de la trama, hace de Foe una novela ambiciosa y original.

Reseña:
«Un intenso debate en torno a la identidad, que convierte al ser humano en materia de reescritura permanente.»
Enrique de Hériz

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788439729624
Publisher:	Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España
Publication date:	11/06/2014
Sold by:	PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GRUPO EDITORIAL
Format:	eBook
File size:	262 KB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

J.M. Coetzee nació en 1940 en Ciudad del Cabo y estudió en Sudáfrica y en Estados Unidos. Ha sido profesor de literatura en diversas universidades de prestigio, traductor, lingüista, crítico literario y, sin duda, es uno de los escritores más importantes que ha dado Sudáfrica, ganador del premio Nobel de Literatura en 2003. En 1974 publicó su primera novela, Tierras de poniente. Le siguieron En medio de ninguna parte (1977), con la que ganó el CNA, el primer premio literario de las letras sudafricanas; Esperando a los bárbaros (1980), también premiada con el CNA; Vida y época de Michael K. (1983), que le reportó su primer Booker, el premio más prestigioso de la literatura en lengua inglesa, y el Prix Femina Étranger; Foe (1986); La edad de hierro (1990); El maestro de Petersburgo (1994); Desgracia (1999), que le valió un segundo Booker; Infancia (1998), Juventud (2002), Elizabeth Costello (2003), Hombre lento (2005), Diario de un mal año (2007) y Verano (2009). También ha publicado varios libros de ensayo, entre ellos Contra la censura (1996), Las vidas de los animales (1999), Costas extrañas (2002) y Mecanismos internos (2007). Asimismo, le han sido concedidos el premio Jerusalem y el Irish Times International Fiction Prize. En España ha sido galardonado con el Premi Llibreter 2003 y el Premio Reino de Redonda creado por el escritor Javier Marías.

Hometown:

Adelaide, Australia

Date of Birth:

February 9, 1940

Place of Birth:

Cape Town, South Africa

Education:

B.A., University of Cape Town, 1960; M.A., 1963; Ph.D. in Literature, University of Texas, Austin, 1969

Editorial Reviews

Foe is a finely honed testament to its author's intelligence, imagination, and skill … .The writing is lucid and precise, the landscape depicted mythic yet specific.
—Michiku Kakutani

The New York Times

In Foe J. M. Coetzee has written a superb novel by reconsidering the events of 'Robinson Crusoe and presenting them from a new point of view....The human image in Robinson Crusoe is unforgettable, but limited: it is a man's world; women appear only as terrified anonymities, domestic servants in Cape Verde, or the honest widow in London who holds Crusoe's money for him....What Mr. Coetzee's novels imply is that every colonial society is caught between a past so seemingly changeless that it may be conceived as beyond time and history, and a present moment entirely given over to power, empire, history and the systems that further those interests. — Dennis Donoghue

NY Times Sunday Book Review

Imaginatively conceived and richly orchestrated, this slim novel by the author of Waiting for the Barbarians is at once a variant of the immortal Robinson Crusoe and a complex parable of art and life. Englishwoman Susan Barton, having been cast away by Portuguese mutineers, reaches the remote island occupied by another castaway named Cruso (sic and his man Friday. She lives on the desolate rocky island for over a year before they are ``rescued'' by an English ship. Cruso dies en route, and she and Friday are transported to England. The world, she says, demands stories of its adventurers; but how is the story to be told? Indeed, what really happened and what are the facts of her life? What of the mute Friday, sole witness to the events, whose tongue was cut out by marauding slavers? Or did Cruso commit the savage act? In England, she beseeches author Daniel Foe (sic to take the raw material and make a convincing narrative. How does art give life to experience, enliven it, make it vivid, memorable? The truth is sly, evasive; but the novelist closes in upon it with poetic precision to create a small, enigmatic work of art. We are pressed to see in the characters' relationships an allegory of the evil social order that poisons the author's native South Africa. (February)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Cast adrift by a mutinous crew, Susan Barton washes ashore on an isle of classic fiction. For the next year, Robinson Cruso sculpts the land while Friday mutely watches Susan intrude upon their loneliness. Life is mere pattern for the two unquestioning castaways, but Susan is not of their story and she pushes Cruso for rationales that don't exist in a world of imagination. Finally rescued and returned to London, Susan leads Friday to Daniel Foe, the author who will write their tale. Foe, however, sees a different story and seeks ``to tell the truth in all its substance.'' Discovering such truth is Coetzee's aim in Foe, an intriguing novel strikingly different from his earlier works. Here he scrutinizes the gulf between a story and its telling, giving us a thought-provoking text wonderfully rich in meaning and design. Paul E. Hutchison, English Dept., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park

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