First of all, beginning the analysis from the title, De Foe's "The Life And Strange Surprinsing Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe" makes understand the story will speak about a main character, and events that will happen will be related to him and his story; instead Coetzee's "Foe" leaves more to the imagination of the reader; the title Foe reminds immediatly the name of Daniel De Foe so it makes understand taht the story could be aboiut him or his most famous character. The structure of the novel is organized into four chapters, in which there are all the elements of a classical novel, like Robinson Crusoe, but they are represented in so many chapters; and this is connected with the reader's perception of the novel beacuse in a long novel like Robinson Crusoe the writer has the time and the space to make so many descriptions from the point of view of the protagonist, and in "Foe" it's not the same because, by using different narrative techniques, and a balance between showing and telling to capture the reader's attention, Coetzee expresses the point of view of the protagonist but leaves so much more of the story to the personal interpretation of the reader. In Robinson Crusoe it's the the main character who decides what is good and what is bed, who are the righteous and who are the wicked, so we can say it's the author who decides it. The aim of Coetzee with this book is to make the reader reflect 'bout the social background in which the De Foe's novel is told, by using the same De Foe as character in the story and so making a rewrinting of a classical novel in a post-modernism revisitation. As a matter of fact Coetzee tells a story that is so similar to De Foe's novel, but "Foe" is under of view, it gives a more accurate description of the cultural background and it tells the story of the birth of the same novel from which "Foe" is inspired. In the end, De Foe's novel is a very good and interesting story, but its rewrinting by Coetzee gives a more precise panorama of the cultural and social background (like life conditions and the behavior of men in front of women) and it can make us imagine in what context De Foe was when he wrote Robinson Crusoe, a context that today has completely changed and cannot give the same percepion of connection between man and nature.