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Aug 6, 2020 · ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ Review: An Aestheticized Fable of Colonialism - The New York Times. Advertisement. ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ Review: An Aestheticized...
—The New York Times Book Review “[ Waiting for the Barbarians ] makes it clear Mendelsohn is now, and has been for some time, the finest critic alive …[The essays] proceed from an unparalleled understanding of the Greek and Roman roots of storytelling, which he braids into reviews with a subtlety and patience that is beautiful to behold.
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“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
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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,...
Oct 18, 2022 · At this point, J. M. Coetzee’s most famous novel, Waiting for the Barbarians, has been called upon to represent any number of colonial or postcolonial themes, concepts, and regimes, among other representations of oppression in political discourse.
PR9369.3.C58 W3 1980. 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. American composer Philip Glass has also written an ...
