Richard Crary takes a lengthy look at J. M. Coetzee's first book, "Dusklands" which contains two novellas "The Vietnam Project" and "Dusklands".
Both stories cover familiar Coetzee territory: madness, obsession, colonialism, imperialism. Both stories play with questions of reality and authorship, both purporting to be largely made up of official documents, and in both his own historical role is implicated.
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