Dusklands | Characters

Adonis
Adonis (from the second novella) is one of the Hottentots who desert Jacobus at the Namaqua village. Jacobus later executes him.

Coetzee
Coetzee appears in “The Vietnam Project” as Eugene’s supervisor and the manager of the assignment called the New Life Project, related in some way to the war in Vietnam. Eugene admires Coetzee but admits that he is afraid of him. Readers see Coetzee only through Eugene, who describes Coetzee as a “powerful, genial, ordinary man, so utterly without vision.” Eugene suggests that Coetzee was once a...


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