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For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed. Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times, the Magistrate is an analogue of all men living in complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.
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Waiting for the barbarians, J. M. Coetzee
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- Released
- 2000
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- J. M. Coetzee
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 2000
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 074939420x
- ISBN13
- 9780749394202
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Love, Classics, Politics, Military Fiction, Wars, Africa, Adapted for Film, Violence, Psychological novels, Nobel prize, South Africa, Torture, Dictatorship, Oppression, British Empire, South African Literature, Barbarians, Protection of State Borders
- First published
- 1980
- Original title
- Waiting for the Barbarians
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed. Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times, the Magistrate is an analogue of all men living in complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.