The story proceeds with the focus on Susan’s thoughts into Foe’s. And as her struggles are developing, Foe manipulates the entire situation to take the better of it – rather than a mere writer of Barton’s accounts, Foe focuses on the possibilities of Barton’s reunion with her lost daughter and on the details that were actually written on the Robinson Crusoe. Susan Barton is the primary narrator of the Coetzee novel, struggling with the indebted Foe to release the story of her life as Cruso’s living descendant, though, Cruso and Barton were never, in any way, related. Whose story should I believe in? ’ is the recurring question throughout the novel. The author contorts the story, its characters and its points of subject in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe on their heads to disturb the perceptions of truth, trust and narration. The novel studied the concept of the narrative voice, or the narrator – of who is telling the story. Among the prevailing themes in the novel is on the craft of storytelling. Novel closes with words from an unknown author – presumed to be Coetzee himself, modifying the Susan Barton memoir into the story as we know it which decomposes the narration into an act of authorial repudiation (Atwell).
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