Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee - 9780099465935

Waiting for the Barbarians

By J.M. Coetzee

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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.

ISBN:
9780099465935
Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
176
Published:
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Imprint:
Vintage
Weight:
130 g

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