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3.93. 32,331 ratings2,585 reviews. For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war.
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Dec 12, 2014 · Waiting for the Barbarians was written in 1980, during the apartheid regime in South Africa. But what it says about torture remains true today. If the state wants to stand up to barbarity, it...
Aug 7, 2020 · Waiting for the Barbarians is an adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s 1980 novel, in which time and place likewise remain unfixed and allegorical, with many important characters unnamed: the warrant ...
May 27, 2023 · Waiting for the Barbarians has clear, glaring themes: the nature of responsibility, complicity and complacency, the internalisation of guilt and the politics of fear.
Janet Thormann. Book Review Essay: “Waiting for the Barbarians” by J. M. Coetzee. Since its inception political theory, insofar as it has been concerned with the subject in democracy, has treated the subject as citizen.
“A remarkable and original book.” —Graham Greene “Coetzee, with laconic brilliance, articulates one of the basic problems of our time—how to understand the mentality behind brutality and injustice.” —Anthony Burgess, New York “A real literary event.” —Irving Howe, The New York Times Book Review
Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by the South African writer J. M. Coetzee. First published in 1980, it was chosen by Penguin for its series Great Books of the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction.
