Dusklands

Dusklands (1974 ) is the first novel by the Nobel laureate JM Coetzee later. Subject of the book is to illustrate and critique the violence of the colonialists and imperialists in the Western world.

The novel itself is composed of two different stories. The first, the Vietnam Project, is about the gradual descent into madness of the protagonist Eugene Dawn. Eugene works for a U.S. government agency that is responsible for mental care in the Vietnam War. However him take his work on mythography and his psychological activities too in claim; his downfall reaches the climax when he stabbed his son Martin.

The second story, The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee, who plays in the 18th century, is the representation of a hunting expedition in the " undiscovered " hinterland of South Africa. After the Orange River has been crossed, Jacobus Coetzee meets with his slaves to the Nama tribe with which he operates trading, but suddenly ill. The tribe takes care of him and he is slowly recovering. But it comes to a fight, for which he is expelled from the village. Only his faithful slave accompanied him on his way back, but dies on the way, so that Coetzee continues its way back alone. Later he organized a punitive expedition against the Nama. The story ends with the murder of his slaves, who left him at the previous trip down, and with the murder of the tribe.

Others

There is no German translation of the novel.

• J. M. Coetzee
• Literary work
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature ( South Africa)
• Literature ( English )
• Novel, epic