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Dusklands

A 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 narrated by a researcher investigating the effectiveness of United States propaganda and psychological warfare in Vietnam. The question of power is also explored in "The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee," the story of an eighteenth-century Boer frontiersman who vows revenge on the Hottentot natives because they have failed to treat him with the respect that he thinks a white man deserves. With striking intensity, J. M. Coetzee penetrates the twilight land of obsession, charting the nature on colonization as it seeks, in 1970 as in 1760, to absorb the wilds into the Western dusklands.

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  • "Vietnam project from Dusklands"@en
  • "Dusklands"@pl
  • "Dusklands"
  • "Dusklands"@it

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  • "A 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 narrated by a researcher investigating the effectiveness of United States propaganda and psychological warfare in Vietnam. The question of power is also explored in "The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee," the story of an eighteenth-century Boer frontiersman who vows revenge on the Hottentot natives because they have failed to treat him with the respect that he thinks a white man deserves. With striking intensity, J.M. Coetzee penetrates the twilight land of obsession, charting the nature on colonization as it seeks, in 1970 as in 1760, to absorb the wilds into the Western dusklands."
  • "A 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 narrated by a researcher investigating the effectiveness of United States propaganda and psychological warfare in Vietnam. The question of power is also explored in "The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee," the story of an eighteenth-century Boer frontiersman who vows revenge on the Hottentot natives because they have failed to treat him with the respect that he thinks a white man deserves. With striking intensity, J. M. Coetzee penetrates the twilight land of obsession, charting the nature on colonization as it seeks, in 1970 as in 1760, to absorb the wilds into the Western dusklands."@en
  • "A megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks vengeance on a Hottentot tribe for undermining the 'natural' order of his universe with their anarchic rival order, mocking him and subjecting him to the humiliations of his own all too palpable flesh. A specialist in psychological warfare is driven to breakdown by the stresses of a project of macabre ingenuity to win the war in Vietnam. Both the 18th-century Jacobus Coetzee and the 20th-century Eugene Dawn are in the business of pushing back the frontiers of knowledge and are dealers in death who denounce their own humanity and spurn their feelings of guilt. In these two narratives, Coetzee has crystallized in their absurdity and horror the extremes of scientific evangelism and heroic exploration."
  • "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."@en
  • "Twee novellen over de invloed van persoonlijke motieven bij oorlog en geweld."

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  • "Verhalen (teksten)"
  • "Powieść południowoafrykańska"@pl
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Roman africain de langue anglaise"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Translations"
  • "Powieść południowo-afrykańska w języku angielskim"@pl
  • "Powieść południowo-afrykańska w języku angielskim"

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  • "Zemlje sumraka"
  • "Terres de crépuscule : roman"
  • "昏暗之地"
  • "Dusklands"
  • "Dusklands"@en
  • "Terres de crépuscule : deux nouvelles"
  • "Ciemny kraj"
  • "Ciemny kraj"@pl
  • "Skymningsmarker"@sv
  • "Skymningsmarker"
  • "Hun an zhi di = Dusklands"
  • "Terres de crepuscule : nouvelles"
  • "Terres de crépuscule : nouvelles"
  • "Hun an zhi di"
  • "You an zhi di"
  • "Schemerlanden"
  • "Tierras de poniente"@es
  • "Tierras de poniente"
  • "Sumerechnai︠a︡ zemli︠a︡"
  • "Terres de crépuscule : Deux nouvelles"
  • "Terras de sombras"
  • "Zemlje sumraka : roman"
  • "Terre al crepuscolo"@it
  • "Terre al crepuscolo"
  • "幽暗之地"

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