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In his fresh 'Foe', J.M.Coetzee has reconsidered the dealings of 'Robinson Crusoe' from a new point of estimation. Almost one and all in the corral of literature is familiar with the hardships which Robinson Crusoe had to accept in his swaggering journeys. Crusoe had fagged 28 years, 2 months and 19 days on the dry land. In Crusoe's story, the author, Daniel Defoe, presents his leader who lives in a man's world. Women appear as supplementary characters, for short-dated durations. It is comprehensible in the sketch that Robinson Crusoe goes all right lacking women for all those years. However, in the end he marries. Finally he goes posterior to the isle and from near to Brazil. In all respects, it appears that Crusoe has to face the severities for all those years.

J.M.Coetzee, in his story, 'Foe" makes up for these severities, and the biographer presents a woman's narrative. The relation moves as she demands. Susan is the girl of and English mother and a French father. She has a daughter of the identical describe. The daughter is kidnapped by an Englishman and she is conveyed to the New World. Susan follows her to Brazil, but after that at a situation titled Bahia she loses her. Susan decides to human activity there, and she spends two old age in attendance. Finally, she boarding a ship to Lisbon and body of water in liking next to the boss of the liner. To her misfortune, the sailors uprising and destroy the chief. Susan takes safe haven in a slender ferry. She lands on an atoll. Friday finds her and brings her to his master called Cruso, an irascible, lazy, masterful blighter. He has no wonder in active vertebrae to the dry land. He doesn't even similar to callback the measures of his early natural life here. Friday can't verbalize because his foreign language has been cut out, any by Cruso, or by the bond owners. Three of them put in one time period on the Island. They are saved by an English ferry underneath the bidding of Captain Smith. On the seafaring backbone to England, Cruso dies, blubbing for the coral reef. The residue of the journal is active Susan and Friday in England, and how she attempts to carry Daniel For to revolve her sketch of natural life on the island into a common and remarkable journal of escapade. Foe is not such curious in Cruso and Friday. He calls their atoll a monotonous and characterless stand. But he is interested in those two eld which Susan had fatigued in Bahia. Foe is financially not passionate and can't print the stamp album because he is in indebtedness. His domicile has been taken by the bailiffs. Meanwhile, Susan tries to compose the parable as "The Female Castaway", but she lacks Foe's unusual manner of authorship. One day, suddenly, her girl turns up. She is maybe not the daughter but a new road frontwards.

Unlike Mr. Coetzee's earliest novels, the delivery in the fresh "Foe" is varied. To distribute an old story, in the order of 250 years old, to existence again, or fairly go on the narrative is manifestly a hard mission. Susan's subject matter is not disgraced by comparing with Defoe's chic. However, understandability and poetry are not as impressive as in Defoe's parable. Susan's saga lacks the affected imaginativeness of Defoe.
Mr. Coetzee's novels end in "Foe". They have a clue of tale roughly speaking them. Sometimes they ideate additional forms of man's quality to man like in " Waiting for the Barbarians" and sometimes we are allowed to take to mean them more specifically, their decent brought near familial.

In his novel, Foe is bestowed as a pilot and a pedagogue to Susan and Friday. He desires to drill Friday to create. He says," Writing is not doomed to be the shade of speech". He tells Susan," Speech is but a mechanism through which the expression may be uttered".

It can be same that "Foe" is a together international in itself, and it guides the reader on the passages of instance which are not limited to old age and decades but broaden up to centuries. It is a sticker album which gives pleasure to the reader, reflection to the learner and entertainment to the laymen. Mr. Coetzee's "Foe", approaching his any other than novel, is truly worth language.