The narrator of one section of this novel witnesses a dance based on the courtship ritual of the dove, and compares himself to a Zeno beetle, which continues to play dead even if you pluck its legs off one by one. That narrator contracts a disease which causes eruptions on his buttocks while on an elephant-hunting expedition in the land of the Namaqua. The narrator of the 
The narrator of one section of this novel witnesses a dance based on the courtship ritual of the dove, and compares himself to a Zeno beetle, which continues to play dead even if you pluck its legs off one by one. That narrator contracts a disease which causes eruptions on his buttocks while on an elephant-hunting expedition in the land of the Namaqua. The narrator of the other section of this novel runs away from his wife Marilyn to stay at the Loco Motel with his son Martin, but stabs Martin when the police try to take him away. That narrator discusses programming the father-voice as part of a mythographic report on improving propaganda efforts during the Vietnam War. The two aforementioned sections are entitled "The Vietnam Project" and "The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee." For 10 points, name this first novel of J. M. Coetzee.
The narrator of one section of this novel witnesses a dance based on the courtship ritual of the dove, and compares himself to a Zeno beetle, which continues to play dead even if you pluck its legs off one by one.
Dusklands