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Dec 21, 2022 · Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel written by J.M Coetzee. Under the strict regulations of the dominant culture of The Empire, people known as the barbarians must follow the laws and abide by the people who make up The Empire. The Barbarians are often seen as a lower class of people.
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3.93. 32,248 ratings2,576 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 ...
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.
