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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...
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WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS By J. M. Coetzee. 156 pp. New...
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—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,...
About Waiting for the Barbarians. FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE PEN ART OF THE ESSAY AWARD Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as “one of the greatest critics of our time ...
