Dusklands | Critical Essay on Dusklands
Hart is a freelance writer and author of several books. In this essay, Hart compares the two novellas contained in Coetzee’s Dusklands in search of the not so obvious similarities that link the two stories together.
None other of J. M. Coetzee’s works except for his first novel, Dusklands, consist of two separate works combined to create a whole. One might argue that this was done haphazardly or with only a weak link connecting the pieces. The works, after all, take place in two separate countries, at two separate times. The protagonists live in very disparate circumstances and come to terms with their personal challenges in very dissimilar fashions. But the connections between the two separate parts of this book do take form. Similarities between the protagonists’ personalities and their...
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