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Assoc. prof. of English at Wesleyan U.

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Book Cover for: Foe, J. M. Coetzee

Foe

J. M. Coetzee
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@cweiss_smith Coetzee's Foe might make good sense. It's a reconfiguring of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe with a female narrator, and Friday's tongue has been cut out

Paperback, 1988

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Book Cover for: Waiting for the Barbarians, J. M. Coetzee

Waiting for the Barbarians

J. M. Coetzee
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Happy to report ChatGPT wrote v lame answers to my Qs re Coetzee's "Waiting for the Barbarians" incl. one patently incorrect point: "He is also willing to use [the Barbarian Girl] as a pawn in his own efforts to gain favor with the ruling authorities ..." HUH?

Paperback, 1982

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