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OCLC. 39714684. Dusklands (1974) is the debut novel by J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel consists of two separate stories, "The Vietnam Project" and "The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee."
Jan 1, 2001 · 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 ...
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Coetzee’s novel Dusklands begins with the section (some people refer to it as a novella) called “The Vietnam Project.”. The protagonist is Eugene Dawn, who is the author of a special report ...
About Dusklands “J.M. Coetzee’s vision goes to the nerve center of being.”—Nadine Gordimer The revolutionary first fiction by Nobel Prize Winner, J.M. Coetzee A shattering pair of novellas in the tradition of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Dusklands probes the links between the powerful and the powerless. “Vietnam Project” is ...
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Dusklands is Coetzee's first book, two stories that combine to be about 120 pages. Watching Coetzee's early musings puts familiar themes on display: racism, colonialism, the writing of history, strained relationships, etc. I enjoyed the work as an artifact of Coetzee's development as an artist and award-winning author.
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Jun 1, 1985 · Dusklands strikes a minor note in J.M. Coetzee's works. His first "novel" it is really two long short stories combined into one volume. The first story "The Vietnam Project" is a clumsy work, trying to make the connection between the violence of the colonizer over the colonized, and violence closer to home, linking this chain of war from the perspective of an American researcher who goes mad.
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Apr 21, 2022 · English. 125 pages ; 20 cm. Two distinct narratives tell of an investigation into psychological warfare in Vietnam and an eighteenth-century conflict between Dutch settlers in southern Africa and the native Hottentots. The Vietnam Project -- The narrative of Jacobus Coetzee. Access-restricted-item.
